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Calendar No. 528
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 8
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 21 (legislative day, JULY 20), 1994
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the National
School Lunch Act to extend certain authorities contained
in such Acts through the fiscal year 1998.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act of 1994’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents is
as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Sense of the Congress.
TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT
Sec. 101. Direct Federal expenditures.
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Sec. 102. Technical assistance to ensure compliance with nutritional require-
ments under the school lunch program, the summer food serv-
ice program for children, and the child and adult care food pro-
gram.
Sec. 103. Nutritional and other program requirements.
Sec. 104. Special assistance for schools electing to serve all children free
lunches or breakfasts.
Sec. 105. Establishment of universal school lunch and breakfast pilot program.
Sec. 106. Miscellaneous provisions and definitions.
Sec. 107. Summer food service program for children.
Sec. 108. Commodity distribution program.
Sec. 109. Child and adult care food program.
Sec. 110. Homeless children nutrition program.
Sec. 111. Pilot projects.
Sec. 112. Reduction of paperwork.
Sec. 113. Extension of Food Service Management Institute.
Sec. 114. Duties of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to nonprocurement de-
barment under certain child nutrition programs.
TITLE II—AMENDMENTS TO CHILD NUTRITION ACT OF 1966
Sec. 201. School breakfast program.
Sec. 202. State administrative expenses.
Sec. 203. Special supplemental nutrition program.
Sec. 204. Nutrition education and training.
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 301. Consolidation of school lunch program and school breakfast program
into comprehensive meal program.
Sec. 302. Study and report relating to use of private food establishments and
caterers under school lunch program and school breakfast pro-
gram.
Sec. 303. Report relating to unified accountability system under National
School Lunch Act.
Sec. 304. Amendment to Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC
Amendments of 1987.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that—
(1) undernutrition along with environmental
factors associated with poverty can permanently re-
tard physical growth, brain development, and cog-
nitive functioning of children;
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(2) the longer a child’s nutritional, emotional,
and educational needs go unmet, the greater the
likelihood of cognitive impairment;
(3) low-income children who attend school hun-
gry score significantly lower on standardized tests
than non-hungry low-income children; and
(4) supplemental nutrition programs under the
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.)
and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C.
1771 et seq.) can help to offset threats posed to a
child’s capacity to learn and perform in school which
results from inadequate nutrient intake.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.
It is the sense of the Congress that—
(1) funds should be made available for child nu-
trition programs to remove barriers to the participa-
tion of needy children in the school lunch program,
school breakfast program, summer food service pro-
gram for children, and the child and adult care food
program under the National School Lunch Act (42
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the Child Nutrition Act of
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.);
(2) the Secretary of Agriculture should take ac-
tions to further strengthen the efficiency of child nu-
trition programs by streamlining administrative re-
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quirements to reduce the administrative burden on
participating schools and other meal providers; and
(3) as a part of efforts to continue to serve nu-
tritious meals to youths in the United States and to
educate the general public regarding health and nu-
trition issues, the Secretary of Agriculture should
take actions to coordinate the nutrition education ef-
forts of all nutrition programs.
TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO
NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT
SEC. 101. DIRECT FEDERAL EXPENDITURES.
(a) PURCHASE
OF FRESH FRUITS
AND VEGETA-
BLES.—Section 6(a) of the National School Lunch Act (42
U.S.C. 1755(a)) is amended—
(1) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘Any
school’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided in the
next two sentences, any school’’; and
(2) by inserting after the second sentence the
following new sentences: ‘‘Any school may refuse
some or all of the fresh fruits and vegetables offered
to such school in any school year and may receive
in lieu thereof any other commodities for such school
year if (1) such school purchases fresh fruits and
vegetables for such school year which are at least
equal in value to the fresh fruits and vegetables re-