Bill Text: TX SB2334 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to grants for disaster response by nonprofit food banks.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB2334 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2334-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to grants for disaster response by nonprofit food banks.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB2334 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2334-Introduced.html
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By: Creighton | S.B. No. 2334 |
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relating to grants awarded to nonprofit food banks for disaster | ||
response. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 418.026 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 418.026. DISASTER GRANTS FOR NONPROFIT FOOD BANKS. | ||
(a) In this section, "nonprofit food bank" means a nonprofit | ||
organization that solicits, warehouses, and redistributes edible | ||
food to agencies that feed needy families and individuals. | ||
(b) The office of the governor shall establish a program to | ||
provide grants to nonprofit food banks in this state to build the | ||
capacity of nonprofit food banks to respond to disasters. | ||
(c) Grant money awarded under this section may be used only | ||
to reimburse a nonprofit food bank for all or part of the costs | ||
incurred by the nonprofit food bank as a result of: | ||
(1) maintaining an inventory of emergency food boxes | ||
in preparation for a disaster; | ||
(2) purchasing, storing, and transporting food for | ||
distribution during a disaster; and | ||
(3) purchasing capital equipment necessary to operate | ||
through a disaster, including back-up generators, mobile food | ||
pantries, trucks, meal preparation units, forklifts, technology, | ||
and other equipment. | ||
(d) The office of the governor shall establish procedures to | ||
administer the grant program, including a procedure for the | ||
submission of a proposal and a procedure to be used by the office to | ||
evaluate a proposal. | ||
(e) The office of the governor shall enter into a contract | ||
that includes performance requirements with each grant recipient. | ||
The office shall monitor and enforce the terms of the contract. The | ||
contract must authorize the office to recoup grant money from a | ||
grant recipient for failure of the grant recipient to comply with | ||
the terms of the contract. | ||
(f) The office of the governor may solicit and accept gifts, | ||
grants, and donations from any source for the purpose of awarding | ||
grants under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |