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House Bill 407 |
House Author: Chisum et al. |
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Effective: 5-15-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Watson |
House Bill 407 amends the Agriculture Code to require the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to establish a home-delivered meal grant program to benefit homebound elderly and disabled Texans to help defray the costs of providing home-delivered meals that are not fully funded by the Department of Aging and Disability Services or an area agency on aging. The General Appropriations Act for the 80th Legislature funds program establishment in the amount of $10 million each for FY2008 and FY2009. Qualifying grant recipients include a governmental agency or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit private organization that is a direct provider of home-delivered meals to the elderly or disabled and has received a grant from the county in which the entity operates. The bill contains a formula, and provisions for formula adjustments, governing how much TDA funding may go to any one county and any one grant recipient.