First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0200.01 Kate Meyer           HOUSE BILL 11-1062
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Vigil, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Schwartz, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a direction to the interagency farm-to-school
            coordination task force to study the feasibility of
            developing a farm-to-school program pilot in the San
            Luis valley.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill directs the interagency farm-to-school coordination task
       force, created by Senate Bill 10-081, to study the feasibility of developing
       a farm-to-school program pilot, and methods to incorporate geothermally
       heated greenhouses into such program pilot, for schools in the San Luis
       valley.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  22-82.6-104 (3) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended, and the said 22-82.6-104 is further amended BY THE
       ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION, to read:
            22-82.6-104.  Interagency farm-to-school coordination task
       force - creation - repeal.  (3)  The task force shall study, develop, and
       recommend policies and methods to best implement a farm-to-school
       program, including:
            (a)  Creating farm-to-school program pilots, including the
       program pilot described in subsection (3.5) of this section, or
       expanding food focus education program pilots;
            (3.5) (a)  The task force shall consider specifically:
            (I)  The feasibility of implementing a farm-to-school
       program pilot in schools located, and using produce cultivated,
       in the San Luis valley; and
            (II)  Methods to incorporate geothermally heated
       greenhouses into a San Luis valley farm-to-school program
       pilot, including educating students about geothermal resources
       and using in San Luis valley schools produce grown in
       geothermal greenhouses.
            (b)  The task force shall include its findings on, and
       recommendations for, a San Luis valley farm-to-school program
       pilot in the report required under subsection (4) of this section.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
       shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.