Title: Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act of 2017
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act of 2017
This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to authorize the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide additional food (known as commodity assistance) to states participating in the School Breakfast Program (SBP).
(Under current law, USDA provides commodity assistance to states participating in the National School Lunch Program based on the number of lunches served. The food may also be served as part of the SBP or other child nutrition programs.)
The bill modifies the requirements to: (1) repeal a provision that prohibits USDA from offering commodity assistance based on the number of school breakfasts served, and (2) require USDA to use a specified formula to provide additional commodity assistance for each school breakfast served.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3738 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3738

  To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to remove 
  certain limitations with respect to commodity assistance for school 
              breakfast programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 2017

Mr. McGovern (for himself and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                           and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to remove 
  certain limitations with respect to commodity assistance for school 
              breakfast programs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. COMMODITY ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAMS.

    (a) Delivery of Commodities.--Section 6(b) of the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1755(b)) is amended by 
inserting ``and the school breakfast program'' after ``school lunch 
program''.
    (b) Commodity Assistance Formula.--Section 6(c)(1) of the Richard 
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1755(c)(1)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by inserting ``for the school lunch program'' 
                after ``11 cents''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``The national average value of 
                donated foods, or cash payments in lieu thereof, shall 
                be 6 cents for the school breakfast program, adjusted 
                on the first July 1 after the date of enactment of the 
                Healthy Breakfast Help Kids Learn Act of 2017 and each 
                July 1 thereafter to reflect the changes in the Price 
                Index for Food Used in Schools and Institutions.'' 
                after ``Institutions.'';
            (2) in subparagraph (C)--
                    (A) by striking ``For each school year'' and 
                inserting ``(i) For each school year'';
                    (B) by striking ``State for'' and inserting the 
                following: ``State--
                                    ``(I) for'';
                    (C) by striking ``subparagraph (B).'' and inserting 
                the following: ``subparagraph (B); and
                                    ``(II) for the school breakfast 
                                program shall be calculated by 
                                multiplying the number of breakfasts 
                                served in the preceding school year by 
                                the rate established by subparagraph 
                                (B).'';
                    (D) by striking ``After the end'' and inserting the 
                following:
                            ``(ii) After the end'';
                    (E) by striking ``shall reconcile the'' and 
                inserting ``shall reconcile--
                                    ``(I) the''; and
                    (F) by striking ``such reconciliation.'' and 
                inserting ``such reconciliation; and
                                    ``(II) the number of breakfasts 
                                served by schools in each State with 
                                the number of breakfasts served by 
                                schools in each State during the 
                                preceding school year and increase or 
                                reduce subsequent commodity assistance 
                                or cash in lieu thereof provided to 
                                each State based on such 
                                reconciliation.''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (E), by inserting ``and school 
        breakfast program'' after ``school lunch program''.
    (c) Repeal of Limitation on Commodity Assistance for School 
Breakfast.--Section 6 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1755), as amended by subsection (a), is further 
amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (d); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections 
        (d) and (e), respectively.
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