GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1036

Short Title:  State Nutrition Assistance Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Ballance.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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May 4, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO ESTABLISH A STATE NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for each year of the 1995-97 fiscal biennium to establish and operate a State Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to allow the six North Carolina food banks to purchase commodities that would be given to SNAP-certified pantries across the State so as to provide families and children with the nutrients they need.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$1,000,000 each fiscal year to purchase the commodities; and
(2)	$200,000 each fiscal year for transporting, storing, and handling the commodities at the food bank level.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.