This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format.
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 TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Directs the Texas AgriLife Extension Service to make a presentation to the commissioner of education and other agency heads and provide copies of reports to the Texas Education Agency and other specified agencies on:
(1) The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), which provides nutrition education for economically disadvantaged parents of young children
(2) The Better Living for Texans (BLT) program, a component of the national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides education programs to food stamp recipients to help improve their ability to plan and prepare nutritious meals, stretch food dollars, and prepare and store food safely
(3) Other similar programs as determined by the extension service.
Requires the extension service to provide a copy of each aforementioned report to the legislature every other year. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03429F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3429
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| MA | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Provides for protection of children in the care of the Commonwealth to include a commission on grandparents raising grandchildren, child abuse prevention boards, municipal police training, a child welfare task force, tuition waivers for adopted children, child welfare programs for children and families, area-based child welfare services, children and families area boards, physicians evaluating foster children, needs of high risk children, the Child Advocate, child fatality review teams, and abuse reporting.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht04pdf/ht04905.pdf
Title: H.B. 4905
Source: http://www.mass.gov/
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Concerns Commission on Children and Youth; requires the commission to design and oversee a resource mapping of all federal and state funding sources and streams that support the health, safety, permanence, growth, development, and education of children in the state.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1197.pdf
Title: S.B. 4012
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/
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| LA | Adopted 02/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes the Office of Family Support to enter into Memoranda of Understanding or contracts to establish Truancy Assessment and Service Centers designed to identify, assess, and intervene to ensure that children in kindergarten through sixth grade attend school regularly. These services meet the TANF goal to prevent and
reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock births by providing counseling to children and family members designed to assure regular school attendance and improved academic and behavioral outcomes. Specifies that eligibility for services is not limited to needy families.
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0602/0602RUL.pdf (pages 37 and 38)
Title: LAC 67:III.5539
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us
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