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Committee adopts resolution urging Congress not to cut local food for schools childcare funding this year
Summary
House Concurrent Resolution 96 urges West Virginia's congressional delegation and the president not to cut funding for the Local Food for Schools and Child Care program, citing planting and procurement plans already underway; the committee adopted the resolution.
The committee adopted House Concurrent Resolution 96, which urges West Virginia's members of Congress and the president not to cut funding for the Local Food for Schools and Child Care program.
Counsel explained the resolution recognizes the second round of the program has been terminated and notes the program was set to provide $660 million for schools and child-care sites to purchase local food over three years. Committee members clarified that the resolution's core request is for lawmakers to preserve funding at least for the current year because farmers have already planted and local procurement planning is underway.
With no amendments offered, the vice chair moved that the resolution be reported to the full Senate with a recommendation that it be adopted; the chair called the ayes and declared the motion adopted.
