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108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3869
To provide for the expanded use of technology and information management 
systems in the administration of the school lunch and breakfast programs. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2004
Mr. KELLER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide for the expanded use of technology and informa-
tion management systems in the administration of the 
school lunch and breakfast programs.
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 ‘‘Pride in the Lunch 
Line Act of 2004’’. 
SEC. 2. STATE TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) 
TECHNOLOGY
INFRASTRUCTURE
IMPROVE-
MENT.—Section 7(e) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 
(42 U.S.C. 1776) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘Each State’’ and inserting ‘‘(1) 
Each State’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) Each State plan shall at a minimum include a 
description of how technology and information manage-
ment systems will be used to improve program integrity 
by—
‘‘(A) monitoring the nutrient content of meals 
served; 
‘‘(B) training schools and school food authori-
ties how to utilize technology and information man-
agement systems for activities such as menu plan-
ning, collecting point of sale data, and processing 
applications for free and reduced price meals; 
‘‘(C) using electronic data to establish bench-
marks to compare and monitor program integrity, 
program participation, and financial data across 
schools and school food authorities; and 
‘‘(D) employing methods to ensure that there 
shall not be any overt identification of any such 
child by special tokens or tickets, announced or pub-
lished lists of names, or by any other means.’’. 
(b) PRIORITY FOR REALLOCATED FUNDS.—Section 
7(a)(5)(B)(ii) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42
U.S.C. 1776(a)(5)(B)(ii)) is amended by inserting after 
‘‘need for the amounts’’ the following: ‘‘and shall give pri-
ority consideration to States that will use the funds for 
improvements in technology and information management 
systems described in the amendment required under sub-
section (e)(2).’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 7(b) of the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1776(b)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘and for staff development’’ and in-
serting ‘‘for staff development; and technology and infor-
mation management systems’’. 
SEC. 3. START UP AND EXPANSION ASSISTANCE FOR 
SCHOOLS. 
Section 21(a) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1796b–1(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) shall provide assistance, on a competitive 
basis, to State agencies for the purpose of aiding 
schools and school food authorities with at least 50 
percent of enrolled children certified to receive free
or reduced price meals, in meeting the cost of ac-
quiring or upgrading technology and information 
management systems for use in food service pro-
grams carried out under this Act and section 4 of 
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) 
if the school or school food authority submits to the 
State agency an infrastructure development plan 
that addresses the cost savings and improvements in 
program integrity and operations that would result 
from the use of new or upgraded technology in—
‘‘(A) methods to ensure that there shall 
not be any overt identification of any such child 
by special tokens or tickets, announced or pub-
lished list of names, or by any other means; 
‘‘(B) processing and verifying applications 
for free and reduced price school meals; 
‘‘(C) integrating menu planning, produc-
tion, and serving data to monitor compliance 
with section 9(f)(1); and 
‘‘(D) establishing compatibility with state-
wide reporting systems; and’’.
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