Georgia House Bill 847 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 3 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-11 - House Second Readers
Pending: House Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agricultural commodities promotion, so as to provide for a farm to school program to promote the sale of Georgia-grown farm products to county and independent school districts in this state; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Education, so as to provide for a program to encourage and solicit county and independent school districts to purchase Georgia-grown farm products; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Agriculture; farm to school program to promote Georgia-grown products; provide

Rep. Stephanie Benfield [D]	Sen. Ellis Black [R]	Rep. Lynmore James [D]	Rep. Kevin Levitas [D]
Rep. Tom McCall [R]	Rep. Jay Roberts [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-11		House Second Readers
2009-04-03		House First Readers

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/28634
Text	http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/versions/hb847_LC_25_5644_a_2.htm