I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5432 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into an interagency agree-
ment with the Corporation for National and Community Service to sup-
port a Nutrition Corps. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 27, 2010 
Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York (for herself, Mr. HINOJOSA, and Mr. WU) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into an 
interagency agreement with the Corporation for National 
and Community Service to support a Nutrition Corps. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Service for Healthier 
Kids Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT TO PROMOTE NUTRI-
TION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. 
(a) INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT.— 
(1) SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts ap-
propriated under subsection (c), the Secretary 
of Agriculture may enter into an interagency 
agreement, 
in 
accordance 
with 
section 
192A(g)(10) of the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12651b(g)(10)), 
with the Corporation for National and Commu-
nity Service to support a Nutrition Corps to 
carry out the national service programs de-
scribed in subsection (b) by providing services 
that— 
(i) increase access to, and participa-
tion in, the nutrition assistance programs 
administered by the Secretary of Agri-
culture; 
(ii) improve the quality of the nutri-
tion assistance programs; and 
(iii) support local agriculture and 
farm to school initiatives undertaken by 
the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(B) NUTRITION
CORPS
ASSISTANCE.— 
From the amounts appropriated under sub-
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section (c), the Secretary of Agriculture, in en-
tering into the interagency agreement under 
subparagraph (A), may provide to the Corpora-
tion for National and Community Service— 
(i) funds to be transferred to the Na-
tional Service Trust established under sec-
tion 145 of the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12601) to 
provide in-service or post-service benefits 
to; or 
(ii) funds to otherwise support, 
participants serving in the Nutrition Corps who 
are enrolled in a national service program au-
thorized under the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.) 
or the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 
(42 U.S.C. 4950 et seq.). 
(2) CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMU-
NITY SERVICE.—The Corporation, in entering into 
the interagency agreement under paragraph (1), 
shall 
approve, 
in 
accordance 
with 
section 
192A(g)(10) of the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12651b(g)(10)), positions 
for the national service programs carried out by the 
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Nutrition Corps as approved national service posi-
tions. 
(b) NUTRITION CORPS.— 
(1) NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS.—The na-
tional service programs carried out by the Nutrition 
Corps shall— 
(A) address unmet health needs within 
communities by providing services that— 
(i) improve access to, and increase 
participation in, the nutrition assistance 
programs administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture; 
(ii) improve the quality of the nutri-
tion assistance programs; and 
(iii) support local agriculture and 
farm-to-school initiatives undertaken by 
the Secretary of Agriculture; and 
(B) comply with the nonduplication and 
nondisplacement requirements of section 177 of 
the National and Community Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 12637). 
(2) SERVICES AUTHORIZED TO BE PROVIDED.— 
The services provided by the national service pro-
grams under paragraph (1) may include— 
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(A) helping expand in-classroom breakfast 
under the school breakfast program authorized 
under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) by assisting with set up 
and clean up; 
(B) expanding access to the summer food 
service program authorized under section 13 of 
the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1761) by assisting with activi-
ties for children, transporting and preparing 
food, and conducting outreach to recruit spon-
sors and participants; 
(C) helping educate and train program 
providers for the nutrition assistance programs, 
which may include assisting home providers 
under the child and adult care food program 
authorized under section 17 of the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
1786) in promoting healthy food choices and 
physical activity among children; 
(D) helping clinics participating in the spe-
cial supplemental nutrition program for women, 
infants, and children authorized under section 
17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
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U.S.C. 1786) with services requested by such 
clinics; 
(E) conducting community needs assess-
ments in support of efforts to reduce obesity, 
promote healthy eating, and end childhood hun-
ger; 
(F) helping promote local agriculture and 
farm-to-school initiatives undertaken by the 
Secretary of Agriculture; and 
(G) coordinating and convening community 
stakeholders to cross-promote nutrition pro-
grams and lead related planning processes. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec-
essary to carry out this section for fiscal year 2011 and 
each of fiscal years 2012 through 2015. 
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