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Senate Bill 282 |
Senate Author: Nelson |
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Effective: See below |
House Sponsor: Eissler |
Senate Bill 282 amends the Agriculture Code to authorize the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to develop an outreach program to promote better health and nutrition programs and prevent obesity among children in Texas. The bill amends the Education Code to require the TDA to develop a program under which the TDA awards grants to public school campuses for best practices in nutrition education. It amends the Human Resources Code to require the TDA to develop a program under which the TDA awards grants to participants in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, Head Start program, or other early childhood education programs to operate nutrition education programs for children who are at least three years of age but younger than five years of age, as well as to community and faith-based initiatives that provide recreational, social, volunteer, leadership, mentoring, or developmental programs to incorporate nutrition education into programs provided for children younger than 19 years of age.
Senate Bill 282 takes effect June 19, 2009, but only if a specific appropriation for the implementation of the bill is provided in a general appropriations act of the 81st Legislature.