Nevada § 561.515 - Home Feeds Nevada Agriculture Food Purchase Program: Establishment; purpose; gifts, grants or donations; purchases, transportation and distribution; reports

§ 561.515. Home Feeds Nevada Agriculture Food Purchase Program: Establishment; purpose; gifts, grants or donations; purchases, transportation and distribution; reports

1. The Director shall establish the Home Feeds Nevada Agriculture Food Purchase Program

to supplement the supply of nutritious food available to persons through food banks

and other providers, as identified in subsection 4. 2. The Director may solicit and accept any gift, grant or donation for the Program. Upon receipt of any gift, grant or donation of money, the amount received must be

deposited in the Nutritious Food Purchase Account created by NRS 561.505 . Gifts, grants and donations deposited in the Account must be used in the same manner

as other money in the Account. 3. In carrying out the Program, the Director shall develop a procedure through which

nutritious food that is grown, produced or processed in this State may be purchased

by the Director and distributed at no cost to food banks in this State for distribution

pursuant to subsection 4. The Director shall determine the cost for purchasing such nutritious food through

a negotiated process. The money in the Nutritious Food Purchase Account must only be used to pay reasonable

expenses related to: (a) Operating the Program; and (b) Purchasing, transporting and distributing the nutritious food. 4. Upon receiving the nutritious food pursuant to subsection 3, a food bank shall

distribute at no cost the nutritious food to persons, emergency food pantries, soup

kitchens or homeless shelters, based on need, in the area that the food bank serves. 5. Any food bank that receives nutritious food pursuant to subsection 3 shall submit

a quarterly report to the Director concerning: (a) The amount of nutritious food that was distributed pursuant to subsection 4;

and (b) The manner in which the nutritious food was distributed pursuant to subsection

4. 6. On or before September 30 of each year, the Director shall submit a written report

of the Council on Food Security concerning the following matters from the immediately

preceding fiscal year: (a) All expenditures from the Nutritious Food Purchase Account created by NRS 561.505 ; (b) The number of people and households served by the Program; and (c) The variety, supply and cost of purchases made pursuant to subsection 3. 7. As used in this section: (a) “ Council on Food Security ” means the Council on Food Security created by NRS 232.4966 . (b) “ Food bank ” means a food bank or other organization that is a member of the Feeding America

network.