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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1424 

To amend the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022 to extend additional reimbursement 

rates for certain child nutrition programs, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 7, 2023 

Ms. SPANBERGER (for herself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To amend the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022 to extend additional reimbursement rates for certain child nutrition 

programs, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Helping Schools Feed 

5 Kids Act of 2023’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF REIMBURSEMENT RATES. 

7 (a) BREAKFASTS AND LUNCHES.—Section 2(a)(3) of 

8 the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022 (42 U.S.C. 1753 note) 

9 is amended— 

10 (1) by striking ‘‘only’’; and 


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1 (2) by striking the period at the end and insert2 ing ‘‘and the school year beginning July 2023.’’ 

3 (b) CACFP MEALS.—Section 3(a) of the Keep Kids 

4 Fed Act of 2022 (42 U.S.C. 1766 note) is amended— 

5 (1) in paragraph (1), in the heading, by strik6 ing ‘‘FOR 2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR’’; and 

7 (2) in paragraph (2)— 

8 (A) by striking ‘‘only’’; and 

9 (B) by striking the period at the end and 

10 inserting ‘‘and the school year beginning July 

11 2023.’’ 

12 SEC. 3. RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REPORT 

13 RECOMMENDATIONS. 

14 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture (in 

15 this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall, in ac16 cordance with subsection (b), research or implement the 

17 recommendations contained in the Child Nutrition Report18 ing Burden Analysis Study (commissioned by the Food 

19 and Nutrition Service of the Department of Agriculture 

20 pursuant to House Report 114–531). 

21 (b) ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary shall— 

22 (1) implement, on the publicly available website 

23 of the Food and Nutrition Service, a user-friendly, 

24 single location for all guidance and policy materials 

25 provided to States and school food authorities by the 


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1 Food and Nutrition Service of the Department of 

2 Agriculture; 

3 (2) create and submit to Congress a plan to re4 structure or simplify the school meal eligibility proc5 ess, including— 

6 (A) research on— 

7 (i) the impact of using a unified 

8 school meal application form; and 

9 (ii) the use of census tract data on 

10 poverty levels for verification of eligibility 

11 under the Richard B. Russell National 

12 School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) 

13 and section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 

14 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773); and 

15 (B) recommendations for legislative 

16 changes needed to implement such plan; 

17 (3) create and submit to Congress a plan that 

18 includes recommendations for legislative changes 

19 that would allow school food authorities that serve 

20 fewer than 100 students and residential child care 

21 institutions to receive food from the USDA Foods in 

22 Schools program (or cash in lieu thereof) without 

23 participating in the school lunch program under the 

24 Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 

25 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.); and 


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1 (4) consolidate duplicative information requests 

2 across management evaluations and financial man3 agement reviews, while ensuring the purposes of 

4 both such reviews are met. 

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