A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the joint legislative program evaluation oversight committee to direct the program evaluation division to study indirect costs under child nutrition programs, as recommended by the legislative task force on childhood obesity.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  The Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee shall include in the 2010 Work Plan for the Program Evaluation Division of the General Assembly a study of the operation of the Child Nutrition Program. The Division shall examine (i) the guidelines for assessing indirect costs to local child nutrition programs in local school administrative units and (ii) the financial impact upon local child nutrition programs and local school administrative units of a policy prohibiting the assessment of indirect costs to a child nutrition program until that program has achieved and sustained a three‑month operating balance.
SECTION 1.(b)  The Program Evaluation Division shall submit its findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee, to the Legislative Task Force on Childhood Obesity, if reestablished for the 2011‑2012 Session, and to the Fiscal Research Division at a date to be determined by the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.