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Committee lays over bill moving $4 million from dairy program to farm-to-school and proposing program changes
Summary
House File 2,785 was laid over after discussion about moving $4 million in unspent dairy funds into the Farm to School program and proposed policy changes to expand school purchases of local food.
The House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee laid over House File 2,785 after members debated a proposal to reallocate $4 million of unspent dairy program money to the Farm to School program and to alter program eligibility and policy to create school markets for local producers.
Representative Phyllis Vang, the bill’s sponsor, moved the bill and described two main components: reallocating $4 million from a dairy program into the Farm to School (farm-to-institution) program and making policy changes to encourage schools to purchase more local food.…
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