S.B. No. 282

	AN ACT
	relating to grant and outreach programs to provide nutrition
	education to children.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by
	adding Section 12.0027 to read as follows:
	Sec. 12.0027.  NUTRITION OUTREACH PROGRAM. (a)  The
	department may develop an outreach program to promote better health
	and nutrition programs and prevent obesity among children in this
	state.
	(b)  The department may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and
	donations from any public or private source for the purposes of this
	section.
	(c)  The department may adopt rules as necessary to
	administer an outreach program established under this section.
	SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 38.026 to read as follows:
	Sec. 38.026.  GRANT PROGRAM FOR BEST PRACTICES IN NUTRITION
	EDUCATION. (a)  The Department of Agriculture shall develop a
	program under which the department awards grants to public school
	campuses for best practices in nutrition education.
	(b)  The Department of Agriculture may solicit and accept
	gifts, grants, and donations from any public or private source for
	the purposes of this section.
	(c)  The Department of Agriculture may adopt rules as
	necessary to administer a grant program established under this
	section.
	SECTION 3.  Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, is amended by
	adding Section 33.028 to read as follows:
	Sec. 33.028.  GRANT PROGRAMS FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION.
	(a)  The Department of Agriculture shall develop a program under
	which the department awards grants to:
	(1)  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;
	and
	(2)  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.
	(b)  The Department of Agriculture may solicit and accept
	gifts, grants, and donations from any public or private source for
	the purposes of this section.
	(c)  The Department of Agriculture may adopt rules as
	necessary to administer the grant programs established under this
	section.
	SECTION 4.  (a)  This Act does not make an appropriation. A
	provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program,
	creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental
	entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the
	legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the
	provision.
	(b)  It is the intent of the legislature that not more than $4
	million may be appropriated for the implementation of this Act for
	the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2009.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 282 passed the Senate on
	April 21, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2009, by the
	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 282 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 25, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 143,
	Nays 0, one present not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
	______________________________
	Date
	______________________________
	Governor