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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6804
Introduced 02/09/04, by Thomas Holbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative findings.
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A BILL FOR
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HB6804 |
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LRB093 19315 DRJ 45051 b |
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| AN ACT concerning human services.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Act |
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| is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| (305 ILCS 42/5)
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| Sec. 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds a |
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| definite
correlation between proper health and adequate diet |
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| and nutrition and hereby
recognizes the importance of federal |
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| food and nutrition assistance programs
in minimizing the |
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| incidence of hunger and nutrition related health problems
for |
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| those who participate in such programs.
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| The General Assembly also finds that a significant portion |
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| of otherwise
eligible residents of Illinois do not participate |
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| in existing federal food
assistance programs such as the food |
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| stamp program, school lunch and
breakfast programs, child care |
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| food programs, summer food programs,
the special supplemental |
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| program for women, infants and children (WIC), congregate
meal |
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| programs, and home-delivered meal programs. That lack of |
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| participation
is, in the General Assembly's view, due |
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| predominantly to a lack of adequate
program information as to |
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| eligibility and application procedures, a lack of
access to and |
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| in many instances availability of benefits under those federal
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| food assistance programs, and the unavailability of federal |
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| funding
specifically for outreach efforts to expand program |
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| coverage and
participation among eligible persons.
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| The General Assembly believes that it is in the interest of |
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| the public
health of the economically vulnerable residents of |
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| Illinois to establish a
program of community-based nutrition |
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| outreach to enroll eligible targeted
populations in federal |
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| food and nutrition assistance programs designed for
them and to |
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| promote the fuller implementation and utilization of federal
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