NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/3/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1156
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Moreno, Fields, Exum, Lebsock, Peniston,
      Rosenthal, Salazar, Singer, Becker, Buckner, Fischer, Garcia, Ginal,
      Hamner, Hullinghorst, Kraft-Tharp, Labuda, May, Mitsch Bush, Pabon,
      Pettersen, Primavera, Ryden, Schafer, Tyler, Vigil, Williams, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Ulibarri, Aguilar, Guzman, Heath, Johnston, Jones,
      Kefalas, Kerr, Newell, Nicholson, Schwartz, Steadman, Tochtrop, Todd,
      Zenzinger, Carroll.
      
      
      Concerning extending the age of eligibility for the child nutrition
           school lunch protection program, and, in connection
           therewith, making and reducing appropriations.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 22-82.9-104, amend
      (4) (a) as follows:
      
           22-82.9-104.  Child nutrition school lunch protection program
      - creation - administration - objectives. (4)  The objectives of the
      program are to:
      
           (a)  Eliminate the reduced price paid by Colorado students who are
      enrolled in state-subsidized early childhood education programs
      administered by public schools or in kindergarten through second fifth
      grade and who are participating in the school lunch program;
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 22-82.9-105, amend
      (1) as follows:
      
           22-82.9-105.  Program funding - appropriation. (1)  The general
      assembly shall annually appropriate by separate line item in the annual
      general appropriation bill an amount of not less than eight hundred fifty
      thousand dollars and not more than one million five hundred thousand
      dollars to the department to allow school food authorities to provide
      lunches at no charge for children in state-subsidized early childhood
      education programs administered by public schools or in kindergarten
      through second fifth grade, participating in the school lunch program, who
      would otherwise be required to pay a reduced price for lunch. The
      appropriation to the department for the program shall be in addition to any
      appropriation made by the general assembly pursuant to section 22-54-123
      or 22-54-123.5 (1). The department may expend not more than two percent
      of the moneys annually appropriated for the program to offset the direct
      and indirect costs incurred by the department in implementing the program
      pursuant to this article.
      
           SECTION 3.  Appropriation - adjustments to 2014 long bill.
      (1)  For the implementation of this act, the general fund appropriation made
      in the annual general appropriation act to the controlled maintenance trust
      fund created in section 24-75-302.5 (2) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, for
      the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, is decreased by $791,471.
      
           (2)  In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby
      appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund, not otherwise
      appropriated, to the department of education, for the fiscal year beginning
      July 1, 2014, the sum of $791,471, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
      to be allocated to the child nutrition school lunch protection program for
      additional school lunch payments related to the implementation of this act.
      
           SECTION 4.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes 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
      6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); 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 will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2014
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Mark Ferrandino                        Morgan Carroll
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO