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Senate Bill 199 |
Senate Author: West |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
House Sponsor: Hernandez Luna |
Senate Bill 199 amends the Agriculture Code to authorize the Department of Agriculture to award a grant to a nonprofit organization that partners with a public elementary or middle school located in a large urban school district to establish a demonstration agricultural project or another project designed to foster an understanding and awareness of agriculture at the school. The school, with its proposal to the department for a demonstration agricultural project, is required to submit a statement that the nonprofit organization is partnering with the school. The bill repeals a provision that prohibited the department from awarding more than $2,500 to a school in a school year in grants relating to agricultural projects in certain urban schools.