Title: Afterschool Meals Act of 2022
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Afterschool Meals Act of 2022
This bill allows for reimbursements to schools for meals provided to eligible children in after-school care through the National School Lunch Program. (Under current law, schools participating in that program may only provide snacks during after-school care.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6357 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6357

 To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide 
 meals and meal supplements for children in afterschool care, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 2022

Ms. Brown of Ohio (for herself and Mrs. Hayes) introduced the following 
                                  bill

                            January 10, 2022

            Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide 
 meals and meal supplements for children in afterschool care, 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 ``Afterschool Meals Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. MEALS AND MEAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR CHILDREN IN AFTERSCHOOL CARE.

    Section 17A of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 
U.S.C. 1759a) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by insert ``meals and'' before 
        ``meal supplements'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``meals and'' before 
        ``meal supplements'';
            (3) in subsection (b), by inserting ``meals and'' before 
        ``supplements'';
            (4) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``section 17(c)(3)'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``section 17(c)'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by inserting ``a meal or'' before ``a 
                        supplement''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
                        ``meals and'' before ``supplements''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``meals and'' 
                before ``supplements''; and
            (5) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:
    ``(d) Contents of Meals and Meal Supplements.--With respect to 
programs operated under this section, the requirements that apply to--
            ``(1) the content of lunches and suppers served under the 
        school lunch program under this Act shall apply to the content 
        of lunches and suppers served under such programs;
            ``(2) the content of breakfasts served under the school 
        breakfast program under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 
        1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) shall apply to the content of the 
        breakfasts served under such programs; and
            ``(3) meal supplements served under child care food 
        programs operated with assistance under this Act shall apply to 
        the content of meal supplements served under such programs.
    ``(e) Priority.--Before approving a school or a program to operate 
under this section, the State agency shall confirm that an institution 
is not currently providing meals to the program under section 17(r).''.
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