I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3705 
To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child 
Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase the number of children eligible for 
free school meals. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 1, 2009 
Mr. ELLISON (for himself, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. 
SERRANO, and Mr. HASTINGS of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase 
the number of children eligible for free school meals. 
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 ‘‘Expand School Meals 
Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FREE LUNCH ELIGIBILITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 9(b)(1) of the Richard B. 
Russell 
National 
School 
Lunch 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1758(b)(1)) is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as sub-
paragraph (D); 
(2) by striking ‘‘(b)(1)(A) Not’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(b) INCOME ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (A)— 
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘and 
reduced price’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘The income guidelines for 
determining eligibility for free lunches shall be 
130 percent’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(B) FREE LUNCHES.—The income guide-
lines for determining eligibility for free lunches 
shall be 185 percent.’’; 
(C) by striking the third sentence; and 
(D) by striking ‘‘The Office’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(C) FREQUENCY OF REVISIONS.—The Of-
fice’’; and 
(4) in subparagraph (D) (as redesignated by 
paragraph (1))— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(D) The’’ and inserting 
the following: 
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‘‘(D) AMOUNT OF REVISIONS.—The’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘subparagraph (A) of this 
paragraph’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (C)’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 9 of the Richard B. Russell Na-
tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in subsection (b)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘free and reduced 
price’’ each place it appears (other than 
paragraph (7)) and inserting ‘‘free’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘free or reduced price’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘free’’; 
(iii) in paragraph (2)(B)(i), by strik-
ing ‘‘, and shall contain’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘or reduced price lunches’’; 
(iv) in paragraph (3)— 
(I) in subparagraph (E)(iii), by 
striking ‘‘free or reduced-price’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘free’’; 
and 
(II) in subparagraph (F)— 
(aa) in clause (i), by striking 
‘‘Subject to clauses (ii) and (iii)’’ 
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and inserting ‘‘Subject to clause 
(ii),’’; 
(bb) in clause (ii)(II), by 
striking 
‘‘133 
percent’’ 
both 
places it appears in items (aa) 
and (bb) and inserting ‘‘185 per-
cent’’; 
(cc) by striking clause (iii); 
and 
(dd) 
by 
redesignating 
clauses (iv) and (v) as clauses 
(iii) and (iv), respectively; 
(v) in paragraph (7)— 
(I) in the paragraph heading, by 
striking ‘‘AND REDUCED PRICE’’ and 
inserting ‘‘MEALS’’; 
(II) by striking ‘‘and reduced 
price policy’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘meals policy’’; and 
(III) in subparagraph (B), by 
striking ‘‘and reduced price meals’’ 
and inserting ‘‘meals’’; 
(vi) in paragraph (9)— 
(I) in the paragraph heading, by 
striking ‘‘AND REDUCED PRICE’’; 
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(II) by striking subparagraph 
(B); and 
(III) by redesignating subpara-
graph (C) as subparagraph (B); 
(vii) in paragraph (10), by striking 
‘‘or a reduced price lunch’’; and 
(viii) in paragraph (11), in the first 
sentence, by striking ‘‘or reduced price 
lunches’’; 
(B) in subsection (c), in the third sentence, 
by striking ‘‘or at a reduced cost’’; 
(C) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘or re-
duced price’’ each place it appears; and 
(D) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘, re-
duced price,’’. 
(2) Section 11 of the Richard B. Russell Na-
tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1759a) is 
amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in paragraph (1)— 
(I) in subparagraph (A), by strik-
ing ‘‘and the product obtained by mul-
tiplying’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘for such fiscal year’’; 
(II) in subparagraph (B)— 
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