Bill Text: NC H974 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Eliminate Student Cost Reduced-Price Breakfst

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-17 - Ref To Com On Appropriations [H974 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2011-H974-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

 SESSION 2011

H                                                                                                                                                    1

HOUSE BILL 974

 

 

Short Title:        Eliminate Student Cost Reducd‑Price Breakfst.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives LaRoque, Sanderson, and Insko (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, see Bill Information on the NCGA Web Site.
Referred to:	Appropriations.

May 17, 2012

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Department of public instruction for the child nutrition program to eliminate the student cost for reduced‑price breakfast in order to increase breakfast participation, as recommended by the House select committee on childhood obesity.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) for the 2012‑2013 fiscal year to eliminate the student cost of reduced‑price breakfast for children who qualify for reduced-price meals in each local school administrative unit. The goal of appropriating these funds is to increase breakfast participation.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2012.