HJ132: Food insecure households; joint subcommittee to study feasible & appropriate alternatives to reduce.

Chief Patron

Del. David Englin (D-45)

David Englin (D-45)
Alexandria, VA
Served: 2006–

Progress

	Introduced
	Passed Committee
	Passed House
	Passed Senate

Status

Bill is Dead

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Summary

Study; joint subcommittee to study food insecurity in the Commonwealth; report.  Establishes a joint subcommittee to study food insecurity in the Commonwealth. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) determine the rate of food insecurity in the Commonwealth, demographically and geographically; (ii) evaluate the ability of public and private sector food assistance programs to assist food-insecure households; (iii) identify the social, economic, and health effects of hunger within the Commonwealth, including, but not limited to, poverty, undernutrition and malnutrition rates, related physical, psychological, and mental health conditions, morbidity and mortality rates, workplace productivity, academic performance and school attendance of students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12 and college, family stability, and crime; (iv) recommend feasible and appropriate alternatives to reduce food insecurity in the Commonwealth; and (v) consider such other related matters as the joint subcommittee may deem appropriate.

The joint subcommittee must submit an executive summary of its interim findings and recommendations to the 2007 Session of the General Assembly, and its final findings and recommendations to the 2008 Session of the General Assembly.   View Full Text »