SENATE BILL 76

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

INTRODUCED BY

Linda M. Lopez

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE NEW MEXICO-GROWN FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--One million four hundred forty thousand dollars ($1,440,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in fiscal year 2014 and subsequent fiscal years for the New Mexico department of agriculture to purchase New Mexico-grown fresh fruits and vegetables and to administer a program ensuring that the fresh fruits and vegetables are delivered to school lunch programs statewide. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.

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