Appropriates $60,000 as a grant-in-aid to Kauai Food Bank, Inc.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Kauai branch of the Oahu-based Hawaii Foodbank, Inc. was closed abruptly in September, 1994, leaving it with a gap in funding to maintain its existing operations. The legislature further finds that Kauai Food Bank, Inc. has continued to operate through six neighborhood pantries, four emergency food box programs, and one hundred eight nonprofit agencies, in addition to the assistance provided by its many volunteers. The legislature also finds that Kauai Food Bank, Inc. feeds about six thousand five hundred people each month or about fifteen per cent of Kauai county's population, and that half of those people being fed are children. The purpose of this Act is to appropriate state funds for Kauai Food Bank, Inc.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for a grant-in-aid to Kauai Food Bank, Inc.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.