21.0873.02000
Sixty-seventh
Legislative Assembly HOUSE BILL NO. 1413
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Hager, Adams, P. Anderson, Buffalo, Mock, Schneider
Senators Bakke, Hogan, Mathern
1 A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation to the department of public instruction to provide
2 grants to schools for breakfast and lunch for students.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
4 SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION - INTENT - LEGACY FUND EARNINGS. There is
5 appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund in the state treasury, not otherwise
6 appropriated, the sum of $89,500,000, or so much of the sum as may be necessary, to the
7 department of public instruction for the purpose of providing grants to school districts to defray
8 the expenses of providing breakfast and lunch, free of charge, for all students, for the biennium
9 beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2023. The department of public instruction shall
10 develop guidelines and reporting requirements for the grants. It is the intent of the sixty-seventh
11 legislative assembly that the funds appropriated from the general fund be derived from legacy
12 fund earnings transferred to the general fund during the biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and
13 ending June 30, 2021.
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