Reducing Federal Mandates on School Lunch Act

Bill: 113-hr-3663
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-12-05
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accounting and auditing

Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Department of Agriculture

Elementary and secondary education

Food assistance and relief

Meat

Nutrition and diet

Poverty and welfare assistance
Latest action: action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-12-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Reducing Federal Mandates on School Lunch Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from implementing, administering, or enforcing a specified regulation, or promulgating or enforcing any new rule or regulation, establishing a maximum calorie limit or quantity of grains, meat, or meat alternatives for the school lunch program.</p> <p>Prohibits the Secretary from implementing, administering, or enforcing specified rules and regulations with respect to any school food authority that certifies to its state that it: (1) has calculated the costs of complying with such rules and regulations; and (2) has determined, in a manner consistent with school district operational procedures, that it cannot operate a food service program without incurring increased costs for complying with those rules and regulations.</p> <p>Identifies those rules and regulations as:</p> <ul> <li>the rule entitled &quot;National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010&quot;;</li> <li>any new rule regarding foods sold in schools that are not foods provided under the school lunch or breakfast programs;</li> <li>a specified regulation and any new rule or regulation regarding school lunch price increases; and </li> <li>a specified regulation and any new rule or regulation which establishes new food-based meal patterns, nutrition standards, or meal planning approaches for the school breakfast program.</li> </ul> <p>Prohibits the Secretary from defining the phrase &quot;costs of complying&quot; or establishing or suggesting how a school food authority is to calculate those costs or increased costs for complying.</p> <p>Maintains these prohibitions until a law is enacted that extends by at least five fiscal years the authorization or duration of one or more school lunch or breakfast programs.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3663 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 5, 2013 Mrs. Noem (for herself, Mr. Conaway , Mr. Fitzpatrick , Mr. Roe of Tennessee , Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois , and Mr. Aderholt ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To prohibit regulations establishing certain limits for the school lunch program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Reducing Federal Mandates on School Lunch Act . 2. Prohibition of regulations establishing certain limits for the school lunch program Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and until the date of enactment of a law that extends by not less than 5 fiscal years the authorization or duration of 1 or more programs under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq. ) or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq. ), the Secretary of Agriculture shall not— (1) implement, administer, or enforce part 210 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as such part relates to the establishment of a maximum calorie limit and a maximum quantity of grains, meat, or meat alternatives for the school lunch program), as amended by the final regulations published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on January 26, 2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 4088 et seq.); or (2) promulgate or enforce any new rule or regulation that establishes a maximum calorie limit or maximum quantity of grains, meat, or meat alternatives for the school lunch program established under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq. ). 3. Prohibition of other nutrition regulations for certain school food authorities (a) Prohibition (1) In general Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and until the date of enactment of a law that extends by not less than 5 fiscal years the authorization or duration of 1 or more programs under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq. ) or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq. ), the Secretary of Agriculture shall not implement, administer, or enforce the rules or regulations described in subsection (b) with respect to any school food authority that certifies to the State in which the school food authority is located that the school food authority— (A) has calculated the costs of complying with such rules and regulations; and (B) has determined, in a manner consistent with school district operational procedures, that the school food authority is not capable of operating a food service program without increased costs as a result of complying with any or all of such rules and regulations. (2) Prohibition on defining costs For purposes of this subsection, the Secretary of Agriculture shall not— (A) define the phrase costs of complying ; or (B) establish or suggest how a school food authority shall calculate the costs of complying under paragraph (1)(A) or increased costs under paragraph (1)(B). (b) Regulations The rules and regulations described in subsection (a)(1) are the following: (1) The rule entitled National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on June 28, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 39068 et seq.), or any new rule with respect to foods sold in schools other than those foods provided under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq. ) or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq. ). (2) Part 210 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as amended by the interim regulations published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on June 17, 2011 (76 Fed Reg. 35301 et seq.)), as such part relates to school lunch price increases, or any new rule or regulation with respect to increasing the price of school lunches under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq. ). (3) Part 220 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as amended by the final regulations published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on January 26, 2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 4088 et seq.)), as such part relates to establishing new food-based meal patterns, nutrition standards, and meal planning approaches for the school breakfast program, or any new rule or regulation which establishes new food-based meal patterns, nutrition standards, or meal planning approaches for the school breakfast program established under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq. ). 4. Rules of construction Nothing in this Act prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing, administering, or enforcing— (1) any rules or regulations not described in this Act; or (2) parts 210 and 220 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, as such parts were in effect on the day before the effective dates of the amendments made to such parts described in paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 3(b), respectively.