so transferred to such program, and containing a
justification for so transferring such amount;’’, and
(3) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘a appli-
cation’’ and inserting ‘‘an application’’,
(B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘any
agency administering activities that receive’’
and inserting ‘‘the State that receives’’, and
(C) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘entitles’’
and inserting ‘‘entitled’’, and
(4) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c), and
(5) by inserting after subsection (a) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(b) STATE EVALUATION PLAN AND EVALUATION
RESULTS.—
‘‘(1) EVALUATION PLAN.—In the first report
submitted under subsection (a) after the date of the
enactment of the Personal Responsibility Act of
1995, and in the report for each alternating 1-year
period thereafter, the State shall include a plan the
State intends to carry out in the 1-year period sub-
sequent to the period for which such report is sub-
mitted, to evaluate the extent to which the State has
realized each of the goals specified in paragraphs (2)
through (5) of section 658A(b). The State shall in-
clude in such plan a description of the types of data
and other information the State will collect to deter-
mine whether the State has realized such goals.
‘‘(2) EVALUATION RESULTS.—In the second re-
port submitted under subsection (a) after the date
of the enactment of the Personal Responsibility Act
of 1995, and in the report for each alternating 1-
year period thereafter, the State shall include a sum-
mary of the results of an evaluation carried out
under the evaluation plan contained in the report
submitted under subsection (a) for the preceding 1-
year period.’’.
(j) REPORT BY SECRETARY.—Section 658L of the
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42
U.S.C. 9858j) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘, 1993, and annually’’ and in-
serting ‘‘following the end of the second fiscal year
with respect to which the amendments made by the
Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 apply, and bien-
nially’’,
(2) by striking ‘‘Committee on Education and
Labor’’ and inserting ‘‘Speaker’’,
(3) by striking ‘‘Committee on Labor and
Human Resources’’ and inserting ‘‘President pro
tempore’’, and
(4) by striking the last sentence.
(k) REALLOTMENTS.—Section 658O of the Child
Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42
U.S.C. 9858m) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘POSSESSIONS’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘POSSESSIONS’’,
(B) by inserting ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘States,’’,
and
(C) by striking ‘‘, and the Trust Territory
of the Pacific Islands’’,
(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(b) STATE ALLOTMENT.—From the amount appro-
priated under section 658B for each fiscal year remaining
after reservations under subsection (a), the Secretary shall
allot to each State (excluding Guam, American Samoa, the
Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) an amount that
bears the same ratio to the amount so appropriated for
such fiscal year as the aggregate of the amounts received
by the State under—
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‘‘(1) this subchapter for fiscal year 1994;
‘‘(2) section 403 of the Social Security Act,
with respect to expenditures by the State for child
care under section 402(g)(1) of such Act during fis-
cal year 1994; and
‘‘(3) section 403(n) of the Social Security Act
for fiscal year 1994;
bears to the aggregate of the amounts received by all the
States (excluding Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-
lands of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands) under paragraphs (1), (2), and
(3).’’,
(3) in subsection (c)—
(A) in paragraph (2)(A) by striking ‘‘agen-
cy’’ and inserting ‘‘entity’’, and
(B) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘our’’
and inserting ‘‘out’’,
(4) by striking subsection (e), and
(5) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (e).
(l) DEFINITIONS.—Section 658P of the Child Care
and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C.
9858n) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (5)(A)—
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(A) in clause (i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end and inserting ‘‘or’’,
(B) by striking ‘‘that—’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘(i)’’, and inserting ‘‘that’’, and
(C) by striking clause (ii),
(2) by amending paragraph (8) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(8) LEAD
ENTITY.—The term ‘lead entity’
means the State agency or other entity designated
under section 658B(a).’’,
(3) by striking paragraphs (3), (10), and (12),
(4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(3) CHILD CARE SERVICES.—The term ‘child
care services’ means services that constitute physical
care of a child and may include services that are de-
signed to enhance the educational, social, cultural,
emotional, and recreational development of a child
but that are not intended to serve as a substitute for
compulsory educational services.’’,
(5) in paragraph (13)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘or’’ after ‘‘Samoa,’’, and
(B) by striking ‘‘, and the Trust Territory
of the Pacific Islands’’, and
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(6) by redesignating paragraphs (11), (13), and
(14) as paragraphs (10), (11), and (12), respec-
tively.
(m) AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER FUNDS.—The Child
Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42
U.S.C. 9858 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section
658S the following:
‘‘SEC. 658T. TRANSFER OF FUNDS.
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—Of the aggregate amount of pay-
ments received under this subchapter by a State in each
fiscal year, the State may transfer not more than 20 per-
cent for use by the State to carry out State programs
under 1 or more of the following provisions of law:
‘‘(1) Part A of title IV of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).
‘‘(2) Part B of title IV of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 620 et seq.).
‘‘(3) The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42
U.S.C. 1771 et seq.).
‘‘(4) The National School Lunch Act (42
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.).
‘‘(5) Title XX of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1397 et seq.).
‘‘(b) 
REQUIREMENTS
APPLICABLE
TO
FUNDS
TRANSFERRED.—Funds transferred under subsection (a)
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to carry out a State program operated under a provision
of law specified in such subsection shall not be subject to
the requirements of this subchapter, but shall be subject
to the same requirements that apply to Federal funds pro-
vided directly under such provision of law to carry out
such program.’’.
SEC. 302. REPEAL OF CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE AUTHOR-
IZED BY ACTS OTHER THAN THE SOCIAL SE-
CURITY ACT.
(a) CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP
ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1985.—Title VI of the Human Serv-
ices Reauthorization Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 10901–
10905) is repealed.
(b) STATE
DEPENDENT
CARE
DEVELOPMENT
GRANTS ACT.—Subchapter E of chapter 8 of subtitle A
of title VI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1981 (42 U.S.C. 9871–9877) is repealed.
(c) PROGRAMS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE.—Title
X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965, as amended by Public Law 103–382 (108 Stat.
3809 et seq.), is amended—
(1) in section 10413(a) by striking paragraph
(4),
(2) in section 10963(b)(2) by striking subpara-
graph (G), and
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(3) in section 10974(a)(6) by striking subpara-
graph (G).
(d) NATIVE HAWAIIAN FAMILY-BASED EDUCATION
CENTERS.—Section 9205 of the Native Hawaiian Edu-
cation Act (Public Law 103–382; 108 Stat. 3794) is re-
pealed.
Subtitle B—Family and School-
Based Nutrition Block Grants
CHAPTER 1—FAMILY NUTRITION BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM
SEC. 321. AMENDMENT TO CHILD NUTRITION ACT OF 1966.
The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771
et seq.) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
‘‘(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘Child Nutrition Act of 1966’.
‘‘(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents
is as follows:
‘‘Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
‘‘Sec. 2. Authorization.
‘‘Sec. 3. Allotment.
‘‘Sec. 4. Application.
‘‘Sec. 5. Use of amounts.
‘‘Sec. 6. Reports.
‘‘Sec. 7. Penalties.
‘‘Sec. 8. Model nutrition standards for food assistance for pregnant,
postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants and children.
‘‘Sec. 9. Authorization of appropriations.
‘‘Sec. 10. Definitions.
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‘‘SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In the case of each State that
in accordance with section 4 submits to the Secretary of
Agriculture an application for a fiscal year, the Secretary
shall provide a grant for the year to the State for the pur-
pose of achieving the goals described in subsection (b).
The grant shall consist of the allotment determined for
the State under section 3.
‘‘(b) GOALS.—The goals of this Act are—
‘‘(1) to provide nutritional risk assessment, food
assistance based on such risk assessment, and nutri-
tion education and counseling to economically dis-
advantaged pregnant women, postpartum women,
breastfeeding women, infants, and young children
who are determined to be at nutritional risk;
‘‘(2) to provide nutritional risk assessments of
such women in order to provide food assistance and
nutrition education which meets their specific needs;
‘‘(3) to provide nutrition education to such
women in order to increase their awareness of the
types of foods which should be consumed to main-
tain good health;
‘‘(4) to provide food assistance, including nutri-
tious meal supplements, to such women in order to
reduce incidences of low-birthweight babies and ba-
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bies born with birth defects as a result of nutritional
deficiencies;
‘‘(5) to provide food assistance, including nutri-
tious meal supplements, to such women, infants, and
young children in order to ensure their future good
health;
‘‘(6) to ensure that such women, infants, and
children are referred to other health services, includ-
ing routine pediatric and obstetric care, when nec-
essary;
‘‘(7) to ensure that children from economically
disadvantaged families in day care facilities, family
day care homes, homeless shelters, settlement
houses, recreational centers, Head Start centers,
Even Start programs and child care facilities for
children with disabilities receive nutritious meals,
supplements, and low-cost milk; and
‘‘(8) to provide summer food service programs
to meet the nutritional needs of children from eco-
nomically disadvantaged families during months
when school is not in session.
‘‘(c) TIMING OF PAYMENTS.—The Secretary shall
provide payments under a grant under this Act to States
on a quarterly basis.
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‘‘SEC. 3. ALLOTMENT.
The Secretary shall allot the amount appropriated to
carry out this Act for a fiscal year among the States as
follows:
‘‘(1) FIRST FISCAL YEAR.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—With respect to the
first fiscal year for which the Secretary provides
grants to States under this Act, the amount al-
lotted to each State shall bear the same propor-
tion to such amount appropriated as the aggre-
gate of the amounts described in subparagraph
(B) that were received by each such State
under the provisions of law described in such
subparagraph (as such provisions of law were in
effect on the day before the date of the enact-
ment of the Personal Responsibility Act of
1995) for the preceding fiscal year bears to the
aggregate of the amounts described in subpara-
graph (B) that were received by all such States
under such provisions of law for such preceding
fiscal year.
‘‘(B) 
AMOUNTS
DESCRIBED.—The
amounts described in this subparagraph are the
following:
‘‘(i) The amount received under the
special supplemental nutrition program for
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women, infants, and children under section
17 of this Act (42 U.S.C. 1786).
‘‘(ii) The amount received under the
homeless children nutrition program estab-
lished under section 17B of the National
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766b).
‘‘(iii) 87.5 percent of the sum of the
amounts received under the following pro-
grams:
‘‘(I) The child and adult care
food program under section 17 of the
National 
School 
Lunch 
Act 
(42
U.S.C. 1766), except for subsection
(o) of such section.
‘‘(II) The summer food service
program 
for 
children 
established
under section 13 of the National
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1761).
‘‘(III) The special milk program
established under section 3 of this Act
(42 U.S.C. 1772).
‘‘(2) SECOND FISCAL YEAR.—With respect to
the second fiscal year for which the Secretary pro-
vides grants to States under this Act—
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‘‘(A) 95 percent of such amount appro-
priated shall be allotted among the States by al-
lotting to each State an amount that bears the
same proportion to such amount appropriated
as the amount allotted to each such State from
a grant under this Act for the preceding fiscal
year bears to the aggregate of the amounts al-
lotted to all such States from grants under this
Act for such preceding fiscal year; and
‘‘(B) 5 percent of such amount appro-
priated shall be allotted among the States by al-
lotting to each State an amount that bears the
same proportion to such amount appropriated
as the relative number of individuals receiving
assistance during the 1-year period ending on
June 30 of the preceding fiscal year in such
State from amounts received from a grant
under this Act for such preceding fiscal year
bears to the total number of individuals receiv-
ing assistance in all States from amounts re-
ceived from grants under this Act for the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
‘‘(3) THIRD
AND
FOURTH
FISCAL
YEARS.—
With respect to each of the third and fourth fiscal
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years for which the Secretary provides grants to
States under this Act—
‘‘(A) 90 percent of such amount appro-
priated shall be allotted among the States by al-
lotting to each State an amount determined in
accordance with the formula described in para-
graph (2)(A); and
‘‘(B) 10 percent of such amount appro-
priated shall be allotted among the States by al-
lotting to each State an amount determined in
accordance with the formula described in para-
graph (2)(B).
‘‘(4) FIFTH FISCAL YEAR.—With respect to the
fifth fiscal year for which the Secretary provides
grants to States under this Act—
‘‘(A) 85 percent of such amount appro-
priated shall be allotted among the States by al-
lotting to each State an amount determined in
accordance with the formula described in para-
graph (2)(A); and
‘‘(B) 15 percent of such amount appro-
priated shall be allotted among the States by al-
lotting to each State an amount determined in
accordance with the formula described in para-
graph (2)(B).
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‘‘SEC. 4. APPLICATION.
‘‘The Secretary may provide a grant under this Act
to a State for a fiscal year only if the State submits to
the Secretary an application containing only—
‘‘(1) an agreement that the State will use
amounts received from such grant in accordance
with section 5;
‘‘(2) except as provided in paragraph (3), an
agreement that the State will set minimum nutri-
tional requirements for food assistance provided
under this Act based on the most recent tested nu-
tritional research available, except that—
‘‘(A) such requirements shall not be con-
strued to prohibit the substitution of foods to
accommodate the medical or other special die-
tary needs of individual students; and
‘‘(B) such requirements shall, at a mini-
mum, be based on—
‘‘(i) the weekly average of the nutrient
content of school lunches; or
‘‘(ii) such other standards as the
State may prescribe;
‘‘(3) an agreement that the State, with respect
to the provision of food assistance to economically
disadvantaged pregnant women, postpartum women,
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‘‘(5) to provide nutritious meals to pre-school
age homeless children in shelters and other facilities
serving the homeless population.
‘‘(b) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—The State shall
ensure that not less than 80 percent of the amount of the
grant is used to provide nutritional risk assessment, food
assistance based on such nutritional risk assessment, and
nutrition education and counseling to economically dis-
advantaged 
pregnant 
women, 
postpartum 
women,
breastfeeding women, infants, and young children under
subsection (a)(1).
‘‘(c) AUTHORITY TO USE AMOUNTS
FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraphs (2)
and (3), a State may use not more than 20 percent
of amounts received from a grant under this Act for
a fiscal year to carry out a State program pursuant
to any or all of the following provisions of law:
‘‘(A) Part A of title IV of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).
‘‘(B) Part B of title IV of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 620 et seq.).
‘‘(C) Title XX of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1397 et seq.).
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‘‘(D) The National School Lunch Act (42
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.).
‘‘(E) The Child Care and Development
Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858 et
seq.).
‘‘(2) SUFFICIENT FUNDING DETERMINATION.—
Prior to using any amounts received from a grant
under this Act for a fiscal year to carry out a State
program pursuant to any or all of the provisions of
law described in paragraph (1), the appropriate
State agency shall make a determination that suffi-
cient amounts will remain available for such fiscal
year to carry out this Act.
‘‘(3) RULES GOVERNING USE OF AMOUNTS FOR
OTHER
PURPOSES.—Amounts paid to the State
under a grant under this Act that are used to carry
out a State program pursuant to a provision of law
specified in paragraph (1) shall not be subject to the
requirements of this Act, but shall be subject to the
same requirements that apply to Federal funds pro-
vided directly under the provision of law to carry out
the program.
‘‘SEC. 6. REPORTS.
‘‘The Secretary may provide a grant under this Act
to a State for a fiscal year only if the State agrees that
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it will submit, for such fiscal year, a report to the Sec-
retary describing—
‘‘(1) the number of individuals receiving assist-
ance under the grant in accordance with each of
paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 5(a);
‘‘(2) the different types of assistance provided
to such individuals in accordance with such para-
graphs;
‘‘(3) the extent to which such assistance was ef-
fective in achieving the goals described in section
2(b);
‘‘(4) the standards and methods the State is
using to ensure the nutritional quality of such assist-
ance, including meals and supplements;
‘‘(5) the number of low birthweight births in
the State in such fiscal year compared to the num-
ber of such births in the State in the previous fiscal
year; and
‘‘(6) any other information the Secretary deter-
mines to be appropriate.
‘‘SEC. 7. PENALTIES.
‘‘(a) PENALTY FOR USE OF AMOUNTS IN VIOLATION
OF THIS ACT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall reduce
the amounts otherwise payable to a State under a
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grant under this Act by any amount paid to the
State under this Act which an audit conducted pur-
suant to chapter 75 of title 31, United States Code,
finds has been used in violation of this Act.
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—In carrying out paragraph
(1), the Secretary shall not reduce any quarterly
payment by more than 25 percent.
‘‘(b) PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO SUBMIT REQUIRED
REPORT.—The Secretary shall reduce by 3 percent the
amount otherwise payable to a State under a grant under
this Act for a fiscal year if the Secretary determines that
the State has not submitted the report required by section
6 for the immediately preceding fiscal year, within 6
months after the end of the immediately preceding fiscal
year.
‘‘SEC. 8. MODEL NUTRITION STANDARDS FOR FOOD ASSIST-
ANCE FOR PREGNANT, POSTPARTUM, AND
BREASTFEEDING 
WOMEN, 
INFANTS 
AND
CHILDREN.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than April 1, 1996, the
Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of
the National Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with pe-
diatricians, obstetricians, nutritionists, and directors of
programs providing nutritional risk assessment, food as-
sistance, and nutrition education and counseling to eco-
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nomically disadvantaged pregnant women, postpartum
women, breastfeeding women, infants, and young children,
shall develop model nutrition standards for food assistance
provided to such women, infants, and children under this
Act.
‘‘(b) REQUIREMENT.—Such model nutrition stand-
ards shall require that food assistance provided to such
women, infants, and children contain nutrients that are
lacking in the diets of such women, infants, and children,
as determined by nutritional research.
‘‘(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year
after the date on which the model nutrition standards are
developed under subsection (a), the Food and Nutrition
Board of the Institute of Medicine of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences shall prepare and submit to the Congress
a report regarding the efforts of States to implement such
model nutrition standards.
‘‘SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated to carry out this Act $4,606,000,000 for fiscal
year 1996, $4,777,000,000 for fiscal year 1997,
$4,936,000,000 for fiscal year 1998, $5,120,000,000 for
fiscal year 1999, and $5,308,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.
‘‘(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated under subsection (a) are authorized to remain
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available until the end of the fiscal year subsequent to the
fiscal year for which such amounts are appropriated.
‘‘SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘For purposes of this Act:
‘‘(1) 
BREASTFEEDING
WOMEN.—The 
term
‘breastfeeding women’ means women up to 1 year
postpartum who are breastfeeding their infants.
‘‘(2) ECONOMICALLY
DISADVANTAGED.—The
term ‘economically disadvantaged’ means an individ-
ual or a family, as the case may be, whose annual
income does not exceed 185 percent of the applicable
family size income levels contained in the most re-
cent income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Of-
fice of Management and Budget and based on data
from the Bureau of the Census.
‘‘(3) INFANTS.—The term ‘infants’ means indi-
viduals under 1 year of age.
‘‘(4) 
POSTPARTUM
WOMEN.—The 
term
‘postpartum women’ means women who are in the
180-day period beginning on the termination of
pregnancy.
‘‘(5) PREGNANT WOMEN.—The term ‘pregnant
women’ means women who have 1 or more fetuses
in utero.
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‘‘(6) SCHOOL.—The term ‘school’ means a pub-
lic or private nonprofit elementary, intermediate, or
secondary school.
‘‘(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means
the Secretary of Agriculture.
‘‘(8) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means any of
the several States, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa,
Guam, the Virgin Islands, or a tribal organization
(as defined in section 4(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C.
450b(l))).
‘‘(9) YOUNG CHILDREN.—The term ‘young chil-
dren’ means individuals who have attained the age
of 1 but have not attained the age of 5.’’.
CHAPTER 2—SCHOOL-BASED NUTRITION
BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
SEC. 341. AMENDMENT TO NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT.
The National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et
seq.) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
‘‘(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘National School Lunch Act’.
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‘‘(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents
is as follows:
‘‘Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
‘‘Sec. 2. Authorization.
‘‘Sec. 3. Allotment.
‘‘Sec. 4. Application.
‘‘Sec. 5. Use of amounts.
‘‘Sec. 6. Reports.
‘‘Sec. 7. Penalties.
‘‘Sec. 8. Assistance to children enrolled in private nonprofit schools and Depart-
ment of Defense domestic dependents’ schools in case of re-
strictions on State or failure by State to provide assistance.
‘‘Sec. 9. Food service programs for department of defense overseas dependents’
schools.
‘‘Sec. 10. Model nutrition standards for meals for students.
‘‘Sec. 11. Definitions.
‘‘SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION.
‘‘(a) ENTITLEMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In the case of each State
that in accordance with section 4 submits to the
Secretary of Agriculture an application for a fiscal
year, each such State shall be entitled to receive
from the Secretary for such fiscal year a grant for
the purpose of achieving the goals described in sub-
section (b). Subject to paragraph (2), the grant shall
consist of the allotment for such State determined
under section 3 of the school-based nutrition amount
for the fiscal year.
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT
TO
PROVIDE
COMMOD-
ITIES.—9 percent of the amount of the assistance
available under this Act for each State shall be in
the form of commodities.
‘‘(3) SCHOOL-BASED NUTRITION AMOUNT.—
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this
Act, the term ‘school-based nutrition amount’
means, subject to the reservation contained in
subparagraph (B), $6,681,000,000 for fiscal
year 1996, $6,956,000,000 for fiscal year 1997,
$7,237,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
1998,
$7,538,000,000 for fiscal year 1999, and
$7,849,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.
‘‘(B) RESERVATION.—For each fiscal year
described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary
shall reserve an amount equal to the amount
determined under subsection (c) of section 9 for
such fiscal year from the school-based nutrition
amount for the purpose of establishing and car-
rying out nutritious food service programs at
Department of Defense overseas dependents’
schools in accordance with such section.
‘‘(4) AVAILABILITY.—Payments under a grant
to a State from the allotment determined under sec-
tion 3 for any fiscal year may be obligated by the
State in that fiscal year or in the succeeding fiscal
year.
‘‘(b) GOALS.—The goals of this Act are—
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‘‘(1) to safeguard the health and well-being of
children through the provision of nutritious, well-bal-
anced meals and food supplements;
‘‘(2) to provide economically disadvantaged chil-
dren access to nutritious free or low cost meals, food
supplements, and low-cost milk;
‘‘(3) to ensure that children served under this
Act are receiving the nutrition they require to take
advantage of the educational opportunities provided
to them;
‘‘(4) to emphasize foods which are naturally
good sources of vitamins and minerals over foods
which have been enriched with vitamins and min-
erals and are high in fat or sodium content;
‘‘(5) to provide a comprehensive school nutri-
tion program for children; and
‘‘(6) to minimize paperwork burdens and ad-
ministrative expenses for participating schools.
‘‘(c) TIMING OF PAYMENTS.—The Secretary shall
provide payments under a grant under this Act to States
on a quarterly basis.
‘‘SEC. 3. ALLOTMENT.
‘‘The Secretary shall allot the amount appropriated
to carry out this Act for a fiscal year among the States
as follows:
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‘‘(1) FIRST FISCAL YEAR.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—With respect to the
first fiscal year for which the Secretary provides
grants to States under this Act, the amount al-
lotted to each State shall bear the same propor-
tion to such amount appropriated as the aggre-
gate of the amounts described in subparagraph
(B) that were received by each such State
under the provisions of law described in such
subparagraph (as such provisions of law were in
effect on the day before the date of the enact-
ment of the Personal Responsibility Act of
1995) for the preceding fiscal year bears to the
aggregate of the amounts described in subpara-
graph (B) that were received by all such States
under such provisions of law for such preceding
fiscal year.
‘‘(B) 
AMOUNTS
DESCRIBED.—The
amounts described in this subparagraph are the
following:
‘‘(i) The amount received under the
school breakfast program established under
section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773).
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‘‘(ii) The amount received under the
school lunch program established under
this Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.).
‘‘(iii) 12.5 percent of the sum of the
amounts received under the following pro-
grams:
‘‘(I) The child and adult care
food program under section 17 of this
Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), except for sub-
section (o) of such section.
‘‘(II) The summer food service
program 
for 
children 
established
under section 13 of this Act (42
U.S.C. 1761).
‘‘(III) The special milk program
established under section 3 of the
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42
U.S.C. 1772).
‘‘(2) SECOND FISCAL YEAR.—With respect to
the second fiscal year for which the Secretary pro-
vides grants to States under this Act—
‘‘(A) 95 percent of such amount appro-
priated shall be allotted among the States by al-
lotting to each State an amount that bears the
same proportion to such amount appropriated