A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to ensure that child nutrition programs operating in north carolina's public schools have adequate funds to implement the nutrition standards in elementary schools as adopted by the state board of education.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to enable child nutrition programs in public schools to implement nutrition standards in elementary schools as adopted by the State Board of Education. These funds shall provide twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) for each student enrolled in elementary school.
These funds shall be used to implement the nutrition standards as adopted by the State Board of Education in elementary schools.  These funds may be used to purchase food, equipment, and supplies, to pay child nutrition personnel directly involved in the preparation and service of food to students in elementary schools, and for no other purpose.
A local school administrative unit must document compliance with the nutrition standards by submitting a nutrient analysis of menus served to elementary students for the months of October and March to be eligible to receive these funds.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.