I 
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. 
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 
A BILL 
To amend the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022 to extend addi-
tional reimbursement rates for certain child nutrition 
programs, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘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 
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(2) by striking the period at the end and insert-
ing ‘‘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 strik-
ing ‘‘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 ac-
cordance with subsection (b), research or implement the 
recommendations contained in the Child Nutrition Report-
ing 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 
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Food and Nutrition Service of the Department of 
Agriculture; 
(2) create and submit to Congress a plan to re-
structure or simplify the school meal eligibility proc-
ess, 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 
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