A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to ensure that school food service programs have adequate resources to offer and promote healthy, nutritious food choices to students.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to ensure that school food service programs have adequate resources to offer and promote healthy, nutritious food choices to students.  The State Board of Education shall use these funds to hold local school administrative units harmless for any decrease in revenues due to the implementation of new laws and policies regarding child nutrition.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.