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AN ACT
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relating to certain program and reporting duties of the Texas |
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AgriLife Extension Service. |
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�������BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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�������SECTION�1.��Chapter 88, Education Code, is amended by adding |
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Subchapter K to read as follows: |
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SUBCHAPTER�K.��TEXAS AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE |
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�������Sec.�88.821.��DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "extension |
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service" means the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. |
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�������Sec.�88.822.��PROGRAM REPORTS. (a) The extension service |
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shall make a presentation to the commissioner of education, the |
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commissioner of agriculture, and the commissioner of the Department |
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of State Health Services and shall provide copies of reports to the |
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Texas Education Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and the |
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Department of State Health Services, and any council in which |
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representatives from all three of those agencies are members, on |
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the following programs: |
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�������������(1)��the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program |
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(EFNEP), which provides nutrition education for economically |
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disadvantaged parents of young children; |
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�������������(2)��the Better Living for Texans (BLT) program, a |
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component of the national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance |
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Program (SNAP), which provides education programs to food stamp |
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recipients, applicants, and other approved audiences to help |
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improve their ability to plan and prepare nutritious meals, stretch |
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food dollars, and prepare and store food safely; and |
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�������������(3)��other similar programs as determined by the |
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extension service. |
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�������(b)��Not later than December 15 of each even-numbered year, |
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the extension service shall provide a copy of each report described |
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by Subsection (a) to the legislature. |
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�������(c)��This section does not affect any other requirement for |
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the extension service to make a report to any state or federal |
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agency. |
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�������SECTION�2.��This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.��If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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���President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House����� |
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�������I certify that H.B. No. 3429 was passed by the House on April |
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22, 2009, by the following vote:��Yeas 149, Nays 0, 1 present, not |
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voting. |
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______________________________ |
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Chief Clerk of the House��� |
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�������I certify that H.B. No. 3429 was passed by the Senate on May |
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21, 2009, by the following vote:��Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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______________________________ |
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Secretary of the Senate���� |
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APPROVED:��_____________________ |
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�����������������Governor������� |