Bill Text: NC S1339 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: National School Lunch Program/Funds

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-20 - Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget [S1339 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2010-S1339-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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SENATE BILL 1339*

 

 

Short Title:        National School Lunch Program/Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Purcell,  Dannelly, Preston, Walters; and Atwater.
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.

May 20, 2010

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT TO require the department of public instruction to use a specified amount of child nutrition program funds as required state matching funds for meals under the national school lunch program, as recommended by the legislative task force on childhood obesity.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Public Instruction for the Child Nutrition Program for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year, the sum of five million two hundred thousand dollars ($5,200,000) shall be used as State matching funds necessary to draw down federal funds for school meals under the United States Department of Agriculture National School Lunch Program.  These funds shall be used only for food and food preparation costs in the Child Nutrition Program.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2010.