A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the north carolina food banks.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year to provide additional funding to the North Carolina food banks. These funds shall be allocated equally among the following:
(1)	MANNA Food Bank (Asheville).
(2)	Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina (Charlotte).
(3)	The Food Bank of the Albemarle (Elizabeth City).
(4)	The Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina (Fayetteville).
(5)	The Food Bank of North Carolina (Raleigh).
(6)	Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina (Winston‑Salem).
SECTION 1.(b)  Up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) of the increased funding may be used to offset increased costs for fuel consumption related to transporting food.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.