Helping Schools Feed Kids Act of 2023

Subjects: Agriculture and Food


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1424 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Helping Schools Feed Kids Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF REIMBURSEMENT RATES.

    (a) Breakfasts and Lunches.--Section 2(a)(3) of the Keep Kids Fed 
Act of 2022 (42 U.S.C. 1753 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``only''; and
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``and 
        the school year beginning July 2023.''
    (b) CACFP Meals.--Section 3(a) of the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022 (42 
U.S.C. 1766 note) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), in the heading, by striking ``for 
        2022-2023 school year''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``only''; and
                    (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                ``and the school year beginning July 2023.''

SEC. 3. RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture (in this section 
referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall, in accordance with subsection 
(b), research or implement the recommendations contained in the Child 
Nutrition Reporting Burden Analysis Study (commissioned by the Food and 
Nutrition Service of the Department of Agriculture pursuant to House 
Report 114-531).
    (b) Activities.--The Secretary shall--
            (1) implement, on the publicly available website of the 
        Food and Nutrition Service, a user-friendly, single location 
        for all guidance and policy materials provided to States and 
        school food authorities by the Food and Nutrition Service of 
        the Department of Agriculture;
            (2) create and submit to Congress a plan to restructure or 
        simplify the school meal eligibility process, including--
                    (A) research on--
                            (i) the impact of using a unified school 
                        meal application form; and
                            (ii) the use of census tract data on 
                        poverty levels for verification of eligibility 
                        under the Richard B. Russell National School 
                        Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and section 
                        4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
                        1773); and
                    (B) recommendations for legislative changes needed 
                to implement such plan;
            (3) create and submit to Congress a plan that includes 
        recommendations for legislative changes that would allow school 
        food authorities that serve fewer than 100 students and 
        residential child care institutions to receive food from the 
        USDA Foods in Schools program (or cash in lieu thereof) without 
        participating in the school lunch program under the Richard B. 
        Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.); and
            (4) consolidate duplicative information requests across 
        management evaluations and financial management reviews, while 
        ensuring the purposes of both such reviews are met.
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