GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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SENATE BILL 26

Short Title:  Food Bank Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Odom; Albertson, Ballance, Conder, Cooper, Dalton, Dannelly, Gulley, Horton, Hoyle, Jenkins, Jordan, Kerr, Kinnaird, Lee, Lucas, Martin of Pitt, Martin of Guilford, Miller, Perdue, Phillips, Plyler, Rand, Reeves, Rucho, Shaw of Cumberland, Soles, Warren, Weinstein, Wellons, and Winner.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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February 3, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE FOOD BANKS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund the sum of two million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($2,250,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year to be equally divided among the following nonprofit corporations: the Metrolina Food Bank, Inc.; the Food Bank, Inc.; The Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, Inc.; the MANNA Food Bank, Inc.; the Albemarle Food Bank/Food Pantry, Inc.; and the Cumberland Community Action Program, Inc., for the Cape Fear Community Food Bank, to enable the organizations to better serve persons seeking emergency food assistance throughout the State.  Each corporation shall allocate the funds it receives as follows: 
(1)	$337,000 to purchase nutritious staple food items not received by the food bank in sufficient quantities; and
(2)	$37,500 to offset the costs of transportation, handling, and distribution.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.