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Question: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Working Families 
Child Care Act of 1997''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Assistance for low-income working families.
Sec. 4. Grants for child care supply shortages.
Sec. 5. Report on access to child care by low-income working families.
Sec. 6. Effective date.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Availability and affordability of quality child care is 
        a major obstacle for working parents who struggle to remain 
        self-sufficient.
                    (A) Compared to all other income groups, the 
                working poor are the least likely to receive assistance 
                with their child care costs.
                    (B) Low-income families spend 24 percent of their 
                household income on child care, whereas middle-income 
                families spend 6 percent of their household income on 
                child care.
                    (C) 38 States have waiting lists for child care for 
                the working poor. Among those States, Georgia has 
                41,000 individuals on its waiting list, Texas has 
                36,000 individuals on its waiting list, and Illinois 
                and Alabama each have 20,000 individuals on their 
                waiting lists.
                    (D) One survey of low-income families on a waiting 
                list for subsidized child care found that of those 
                families paying for child care out of their own funds, 
                71 percent faced serious debt or bankruptcy.
                    (E) Half of the States and the District of 
                Columbia, even before the enactment of the Personal 
                Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 
                of 1996 (Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105) during the 
                104th Congress, increased the proportion of child care 
                slots or dollars going to families on welfare, rather 
                than to working poor families.
            (2) The Congressional Budget Office estimates that there 
        will be $1,400,000,000 less expenditures of child care funds 
        for working poor families as a result of the States 
        implementing the work requirements imposed under the Personal 
        Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 
        (Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105).
            (3) Important types of child care are not available in 
        certain States including infant care, school-age care, care for 
        children with disabilities and special health care needs, and 
        child care for parents with unconventional or shifting work 
        hours.
                    (A) A 1995 State study by the Comptroller General 
                of the United States found a shortage of child care for 
                infants and children with special needs in inner 
                cities, and a shortage of all types of child care in 
                rural areas.
                    (B) Only one-third of the schools in low-income 
                neighborhoods offer school-age child care, compared 
                with 52 percent of schools in more affluent areas 
                offering such care.
                    (C) Eighth-graders who are left home alone for 11 
                or more hours a week report significantly greater use 
                of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana than eighth-
                graders who are not left home alone.
                    (D) Existing child care arrangements do not 
                accommodate the work schedules of many working women. 
                According to a 1995 statistic published by the 
                Department of Labor, 14,300,000 workers, nearly 1 in 5 
                full-time workers work nonstandard hours, and more than 
                1 in 3 of those workers are women.
                    (E) Only 10 percent of child care centers and 6 
                percent of family day care providers offer child care 
                on weekends. Yet one-third of working mothers with 
                annual incomes below the poverty level and one-quarter 
                of mothers with annual incomes above the poverty level 
                but below $25,000 work on weekends.
                    (F) Less than 30 percent of Head Start programs 
                operate on a full-time, full-year basis.

SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME WORKING FAMILIES.

    Section 658B of the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 9858) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 658B. FUNDING OF GRANTS.

    ``(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Except as provided in 
subsection (b), there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subchapter $2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 
2002.
    ``(b) Appropriation.--The Secretary shall pay, from funds in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,400,000,000 for fiscal years 
1997 through 2002, through the awarding of grants to States under this 
subchapter for the purpose of providing child care services for 
families who have left the State program of assistance under part A of 
title IV of the Social Security Act because of employment, families 
that are at risk of becoming dependent on such assistance program, and 
low-income working families described in section 658E(c)(3)(D). Funds 
shall be paid under this subsection to the States in the same manner, 
and subject to the same requirements and limitations, as funds are paid 
to the States under section 418 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
618).''.

SEC. 4. GRANTS FOR CHILD CARE SUPPLY SHORTAGES.

    (a) Grants for Child Care Supply Shortages.--Section 658E(c)(3) of 
the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
9858c(c)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) Child care supply shortages.--
                            ``(i) In general.--A State shall ensure 
                        that 100 percent of amounts paid to the State 
                        out of funds appropriated under section 
                        658B(a)(2) with respect to each of the fiscal 
                        years 1997 through 2002 shall be used to carry 
                        out child care activities described in clause 
                        (ii) in geographic areas within the State that 
                        have a shortage, as determined by the State, in 
                        consultation with localities, of child care 
                        services.
                            ``(ii) Child care activities described.--
                        The child care activities described in this 
                        clause include the following:
                                    ``(I) Infant care programs.
                                    ``(II) Before- and after-school 
                                child care programs.
                                    ``(III) Resource and referral 
                                programs.
                                    ``(IV) Nontraditional work hours 
                                child care programs.
                                    ``(V) Extending the hours of pre-
                                kindergarten programs to provide full-
                                day services.
                                    ``(VI) Any other child care 
                                programs that the Secretary determines 
                                are appropriate.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 658B(a) of the Child 
Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858(a)), as 
amended by section 2, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Except as provided in'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2) 
        and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Child care supply shortages.--There is authorized to 
        be appropriated to carry out section 658E(c)(3)(E), 
        $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2002.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 658(c)(3)(A) of the Child Care 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(3)(A)) is 
amended by striking ``(D)'' and inserting ``(E)''.

SEC. 5. REPORT ON ACCESS TO CHILD CARE BY LOW-INCOME WORKING FAMILIES.

    (a) State Reporting Requirement.--Section 658K(a)(2) of the Child 
Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858i(a)(2)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end; 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (E), the following:
                    ``(F) the total number of families described in 
                section 658B(b) that were eligible for but did not 
                receive assistance under this subchapter or under 
                section 418 of the Social Security Act and a 
                description of the obstacles to providing such 
                assistance; and
                    ``(G) the total number of families described in 
                section 658B(b) that received assistance provided under 
                this subchapter or under section 418 of the Social 
                Security Act and a description of the manner in which 
                that assistance was provided;''.
    (b) Secretarial Reporting Requirement.--Section 658L of the Child 
Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858j) is amended 
by inserting ``, with particular emphasis on access of low-income 
working families,'' after ``public''.

SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act take effect as if 
included in the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 
2105).

Answer: Working Families Child Care Act of 1997 - Amends the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to extend its authorization of appropriations through FY 2002. 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from (additional) Treasury funds not otherwise appropriated, to award grants to States to provide child care services for:  (1) families who have left the State program of assistance under part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) of title IV of the Social Security Act because of employment; (2) families that are at risk of becoming dependent on such assistance program; and (3) low-income working families meeting specified criteria. 
Authorizes appropriations for grants to States for child care activities in areas of the State that have child care supply shortages.  Includes among such child care activities programs for: (1) infant care; (2) before- and after-school; (3) resources and referrals; (4) nontraditional work hours; (5) extending the hours of pre-kindergarten programs to provide full-day services; and (6) any other program the Secretary deems appropriate. 
Requires State reports to include information on access to child care by low-income working families.  Requires reports of the Secretary to place particular emphasis on such access. 
(Sec. 6) Makes this Act effective as if included in the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193).


Question: SECTION 1. NATIONAL GUARD OPERATION ABOUT FACE TO PROVIDE LIFE-SKILLS 
              FOR AT RISK YOUTH.

    (a) Chapter 5 of title 32, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 510. National Guard operation about face to provide life-skills 
              for at-risk youth
    ``(a) Program Authority and Purpose.--The Secretary of Defense, 
through the Chief, National Guard Bureau, may use the National Guard to 
conduct an at-risk youth life skills program to be known as `National 
Guard Operation About Face', which shall be a community based outreach 
program for at-risk youth, which shall include after-school and summer 
classes to provide academic skills, computer literacy, employability 
skills, life-coping skills, and communication skills supplemented with 
work experience activities to create vibrant communities that foster 
economic opportunity and encourage life-long learning.
    ``(b) Conduct of the Program.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall 
provide for the conduct of the National Guard Operation About Face in 
such States as the Secretary considers to be appropriate.
    ``(2) The Secretary shall carry out the National Guard Operation 
About Face using--
            ``(A) funds appropriated directly to the Secretary of 
        Defense for the program; and
            ``(B) nondefense funds made available or transferred to the 
        Secretary of Defense by other Federal agencies to support the 
        program.
    ``(3) For purposes of a transfer under paragraph (2)(B), 
administration of the National Guard Operation About Face is a good or 
service for which an agency agreement may be entered into under section 
1535 of title 31, United States Code.
    ``(c) Program Agreements.--(1) To carry out the National Guard 
Operation About Face in a State, the Secretary of Defense shall enter 
into an agreement with the Governor of the State, or in the case of the 
District of Columbia National Guard, with the commanding general of the 
District of Columbia National, under which the Governor or the 
commanding general will establish, organize, and administer the 
National Guard Operation About Face in the State.
    ``(2) The agreement may provide for the Secretary to provide funds 
to the State for civilian personnel costs attributable to the use of 
civilian employees of the National Guard in the conduct of the National 
Guard Operation About Face.
    ``(d) Persons Eligible To Participate in Program.--Any at risk 
youth may participate in the National Guard Operation About Face. The 
Secretary of Defense shall prescribe the standards and procedures for 
selecting participants from among at risk youth.
    ``(e) Authorized Benefits for Participants.--To the extent provided 
in an agreement entered into in accordance with subsection (c):
            ``(1) Any funds made available or transferred to the 
        Secretary of Defense by other Federal agencies under section 
        (b)(2)(B) of this section may be used to provide a stipend to 
        participants for the work experience portion of the National 
        Guard Operation About Face:
                    ``(A) For the original purpose for which the funds 
                were appropriated and in accordance with the 
                regulations of the Federal agency from which the funds 
                were made available or transferred.
                    ``(B) For the purpose for which defense funds are 
                appropriated and in accordance with the regulations 
                prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for the National 
                Guard Operation About Face.
                    ``(C) In the case of a conflict between the 
                regulations described in paragraph (A) and (B), the 
                regulations of the Federal agency from which the funds 
                were made available or transferred shall apply.
            ``(2) A participant in the national Guard Operation About 
        Face may receive the following additional benefits in 
        connection with the program:
                    ``(A) Light refreshments.
                    ``(B) Transportation.
                    ``(C) Supplies.
                    ``(D) Services.
    ``(f) Program Personnel.--Personnel of the National Guard of a 
State in which the National Guard Operation About Face is conducted may 
serve on full-time National Guard duty for the purpose of providing 
managerial, administrative, training, or supporting services for the 
program.
    ``(g) Equipment and Facilities.--Equipment and facilities of the 
National Guard, including military property of the United States issued 
to the National Guard, may be used in carrying out the National Guard 
Operation About Face.
    ``(h) Supplemental Resources.--To carry out the National Guard 
Operation About Face in a State, the Governor of the State or, in the 
case of the District of Columbia, the commanding general of the 
District of Columbia National Guard, may supplement funds made 
available under the program out of other resources (including gifts) 
available to the Governor or the commanding general. The Governor or 
the commanding Federal may accept, use, and dispose of gifts or 
donations of money, other property or services for the National Guard 
Operation About Face.
    ``(i) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `State' includes the Commonwealth of Puerto 
        Rico, the territories, and the District of Columbia.
            ``(2) The term `at-risk youth' has the same meaning given 
        that term in section 1432 of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6472.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``510. National Guard operation about face to provide life-skills for 
                            at-risk youth.''.

Answer: Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, through the Chief, National Guard Bureau, to use the National Guard to conduct an at-risk youth life skills program to be known as "National Guard Operation About Face." Requires such program to: (1) be a community-based outreach program for at-risk youth; and (2) include after-school and summer classes to provide academic skills, computer literacy, employability skills, life-coping skills, and communication skills supplemented with work experience activities. Requires agreements with State governors and the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard to carry out the program. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards and procedures for selecting program participants from at risk youth. Authorizes the use of State National Guard personnel, equipment, and facilities, as well as State supplemental resources, in support of such program.


Question: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``George McGovern-Robert Dole 
International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture 
        Organization (FAO) report, ``The State of Food and Agriculture 
        1998'', approximately 828,000,000 people are chronically 
        undernourished in the world today. While no region is immune to 
        hunger, the vast majority of these people live in 87 low-
        income, food-deficit countries.
            (2) Many of the world's hungry are children, approximately 
        300,000,000. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 
        report, ``State of the World's Children 2001'', states that 32 
        percent of the world's children under five years of age--
        approximately 193,000,000--have stunted growth, which is the 
        key indicator for under-nutrition. Hunger in the early stages 
        of development is particularly debilitating. As reported by 
        UNICEF, optimal neural development in a child, which affects 
        physical, mental, and cognitive development, depends on good 
        nutrition and stimulation during the first months and years of 
        life.
            (3) The causes of hunger are complex, but are most often 
        associated with poverty and lack of empowerment. In developing 
        countries, where poverty is endemic, governments face low 
        revenues and high debt burdens, funding is inadequate for basic 
        health and education, agricultural productivity and marketing 
        systems are weak and under-performing, employment opportunities 
        are lacking, public institutions are often weak, in some 
        countries, HIV/AIDS is pandemic, and many people struggle just 
        to meet their basic needs.
            (4) Poor children rarely receive adequate education. UNICEF 
        reports that more than 130,000,000 primary-school-age children 
        in developing countries do not go to school, and 60 percent of 
        these children are girls. In 2000, the United Nations 
        Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 
        reported that for developing countries, an estimated 
        250,000,000 children from ages five to fourteen are laborers, 
        and fifty percent work full time. Lack of education and the 
        resulting poor literacy limit the growth potential of children. 
        Education develops cognitive skills, improves long-term 
        productivity and offers a child protection from the hazards of 
        labor or exploitation. Long-term studies indicate that 
        increased literacy rates are critical to economic development. 
        In countries that achieve an 80 percent or better literacy rate 
        among girls and women, the birthrate decreases.
            (5)(A) Food aid has been shown to have lasting benefits for 
        children in developing countries when part of multi-faceted 
        programs aimed at pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants and 
        children five years and younger.
            (B) Mother-child health (MCH) programs reduce the incidence 
        of malnutrition and under-nutrition and promote proper growth 
        by providing supplemental food to pregnant women and nursing 
        mothers, along with nutritious take-home foods and health care 
        to mothers and children under the age of two.
            (C) Early childhood development programs provide children 
        between the ages of three and six with meals and training in 
        basic skills, while mothers learn about basic sanitation, first 
        aid and respiratory and diarrheal diseases, the greatest 
        killers of young children in poor countries.
            (D) Food for Education programs reduce the incidence of 
        hunger and enhance educational attendance and performance by 
        providing school meals or take-home rations, along with 
improvements in educational quality and the school environment.
            (E) Although the conditions and challenges in developing 
        countries differ greatly from those in the United States, these 
        international food aid programs are similar in concept to the 
        women, infants and children (WIC) program, the Head Start 
        program, and the school breakfast and school lunch programs in 
        the United States.
            (6) Over the past 50 years, United States international 
        food assistance has contributed to alleviating hunger and its 
        causes and is an integral part of United States foreign policy. 
        From the Marshall Plan to the establishment in 1954 of the Food 
        for Peace program (or Public Law 480) and the Food for Progress 
        Act of 1985, American farmers have played a key role in 
        ensuring that the United States is able to respond to 
        emergencies such as famine, natural disasters, and war, and to 
        contribute to global development initiatives. These programs 
        continue because food is greatly needed in poor countries that 
        cannot produce or afford to import adequate amounts of food to 
        meet their minimal needs.
            (7) 7,900,000 metric tons of agricultural commodities, 
        worth $1,500,000,000 in commodity purchases, were approved 
        during fiscal year 2000 to provide food aid to 91 countries, as 
        authorized under section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 
        1949, the Food for Progress Program, and Public Law 480. 
        Programs were implemented in the field by nongovernmental and 
        private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, the United 
        Nations World Food Program, and governments.
            (8) American farmers benefit directly from food aid 
        programs by selling commodities for international development 
        and hunger programs. In the longer term, the economic uplift 
        from food aid programs improves the living standards and 
        purchasing power of citizens in developing countries, expanding 
        markets for American agricultural products, goods, and 
        services.
            (9) Two of the most successful and beneficial bipartisan 
        programs ever launched on behalf of children in the United 
        States have been the United States school lunch and school 
        breakfast programs, and the women, infants, and children (WIC) 
        program. While hunger among children has not yet been 
        eradicated in the United States, over the past 22 years, 
        America has provided a nutritious meal to most students who 
        cannot afford one. Currently, about 27,000,000 children are fed 
        every day through these programs.
            (10) On May 30, 2000, during the opening ceremonies of the 
        National Nutrition Summit, Senators George McGovern and Robert 
        Dole praised the Federal Government for reducing hunger in 
        America since 1969. They called upon the United States 
        Government to reduce hunger in the developing world through 
        child nutrition programs similar to the United States school 
        lunch, school breakfast, and WIC programs.
            (11) On July 23, 2000, the G-8 Summit in Okinawa, Japan, 
        endorsed a proposal put forward by the United States, the 
        Global Food for Education Initiative, to pursue a pilot 
        preschool and school feeding program.
            (12) On December 28, 2000, in addition to other 
        international food aid program commitments, the United States 
        launched a $300,000,000 pilot program, the Global Food for 
        Education Initiative, through the United States Department of 
        Agriculture, to provide meals, take-home rations, and other 
        assistance to an estimated 9,000,000 needy pre-school and 
        school-age children in 38 countries. Using authority under the 
        Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act and section 416(b) of 
        the Agricultural Act of 1949, food commodities will be 
        purchased from American farmers by the United States Department 
        of Agriculture, which will be distributed in fiscal year 2001 
        through 49 projects developed by United States-based private 
        voluntary organizations and cooperatives, and by the United 
        Nations World Food Program. Senators McGovern and Dole urged 
        the United States Congress to make this a permanently funded 
        program and to engage the international community in a 
        multilateral effort to end child hunger over the next three 
        decades.

SEC. 3. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

    The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter in this Act referred to 
as the ``Secretary'') shall, using the authority of section 416(b) of 
the Agricultural Act of 1949 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as 
``section 416(b)'') and in accordance with this Act, provide eligible 
commodities and financial and technical assistance to establish, 
continue, and expand--
            (1) preschool and school feeding programs to improve food 
        security, reduce the incidence of hunger, and improve 
        educational opportunity; and
            (2) maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs for 
        pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants, and children 5 years 
        of age and younger.

SEC. 4. ELIGIBLE COMMODITIES AND COST ITEMS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
            (1) any agricultural commodity is eligible for distribution 
        under this Act;
            (2) the Commodity Credit Corporation shall purchase 
        agricultural commodities for use under this Act if its stocks 
        are not sufficient to meet commitments entered into under this 
        Act; and
            (3) as necessary to achieve the purposes of this Act, the 
        Secretary--
                    (A) shall approve the use of Commodity Credit 
                Corporation funds to pay the transportation costs 
                incurred in moving commodities (including prepositioned 
                commodities) provided under this Act from the 
                designated points of entry or ports of entry abroad to 
                storage and distribution sites, and associated storage 
                and distribution costs;
                    (B) shall approve the use of Commodity Credit 
                Corporation funds to pay the costs of activities 
                conducted in the host country by a nonprofit voluntary 
                organization, cooperative, or intergovernmental agency 
or organization that would enhance the effectiveness of the activities 
implemented by such entities under this Act; and
                    (C) in the case of administrative expenses of 
                private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, or 
                intergovernmental organizations implementing activities 
                under this Act, shall approve the use of Commodity 
                Credit Corporation funds to meet itemized 
                administrative expenses incurred in connection with 
                activities carried out under this Act; and
            (4) for the purposes of this Act, the term ``agricultural 
        commodities'' includes any agricultural commodity, or the 
        products thereof, produced in the United States.

SEC. 5. ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS.

    The Secretary may provide assistance under this Act to private 
voluntary organizations, cooperatives, intergovernmental organizations, 
governments and their agencies, and such other organizations as the 
Secretary determines are appropriate.

SEC. 6. RULES BY SECRETARY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall assure that rules governing 
this Act shall include provisions to--
            (1) provide for the submission of proposals, each of which 
        may include one or more countries, for commodities and other 
        assistance under this Act;
            (2) provide for eligible commodities and assistance on a 
        multi-year basis;
            (3) ensure eligible recipients demonstrate the 
        organizational capacity and the ability to develop, implement, 
        monitor, report on, and provide accountability for activities 
        conducted under this Act;
            (4) streamline procedures for the development, review, and 
        approval of proposals submitted in accordance with this Act;
            (5) ensure monitoring and reporting by eligible recipients 
        on the use of commodities and other assistance provided under 
        this Act; and
            (6) allow for the sale or barter of commodities by eligible 
        organizations to acquire funds to implement activities that 
        improve the food security of women and children or otherwise 
        enhance the effectiveness of programs and activities authorized 
        under this Act.
    (b) Priorities for Program Funding.--In carrying out subsection (a) 
with respect to criteria for determining the use of commodities and 
other assistance provided for programs and activities authorized under 
this Act, the Secretary shall consider the ability of eligible 
recipients to--
            (1) identify and assess the needs of beneficiaries, 
        especially mothers and children five years of age and younger 
        who are malnourished or under-nourished, and school-age 
        children who are malnourished, under-nourished, or do not 
        regularly attend school;
            (2)(A) in the case of preschool and school-age children, 
        target low-income areas where children's enrollment and 
        attendance in school is low or girls' enrollment and 
        participation in preschool or school is particularly low; and
            (B) in the case of programs to benefit mothers and children 
        five years of age or younger, coordinate supplementary feeding 
        and nutrition programs with existing or newly-established 
        maternal, infant, and children programs that provide health 
        needs interventions, and which may include maternal, prenatal, 
        and postnatal and newborn care;
            (3) involve indigenous institutions and communities in the 
        development and implementation of the program and foster local 
        capacity-building and leadership; and
            (4) carry out multi-year programs that foster self-
        sufficiency and ensure program longevity.

SEC. 7. USE OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE.

    The Food and Nutrition service of the Department of Agriculture 
shall provide technical advice on the establishment of programs under 
section 3(1) and on their implementation in the field in recipient 
countries.

SEC. 8. MULTILATERAL INVOLVEMENT.

    The President is urged to endeavor to engage existing international 
food aid coordinating mechanisms to ensure multilateral commitments to 
and participation in programs like those supported under this Act. The 
President shall report annually to Congress on the commitments and 
activities of governments in the global effort to reduce child hunger 
and increase school attendance.

SEC. 9. PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT.

    The President and the Secretary are urged to encourage the support 
and active involvement of the private sector, foundations, and other 
individuals and organizations in programs assisted under this Act.

SEC. 10. FUNDING LEVELS.

    The Commodity Credit Corporation shall make available to carry out 
programs under this Act--
            (1) in fiscal 2002, $300,000,000 and in fiscal year 2003, 
        $600,000,000 for programs under section 3(1) and $50,000,000 in 
        fiscal year 2002 and in fiscal year 2003, $100,000,000 for 
        programs under section 3(2); and
            (2) in each succeeding fiscal year $750,000,000 for 
        programs under section 3(1) and $250,000,000 for programs under 
        section 3(2).

SEC. 11. COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

    Notwithstanding section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i), the Secretary may approve the use of 
Commodity Credit Corporation funds to pay administrative expenses of 
any other agency of the Federal Government, including any bureau, 
office, administration, or agency of the Department of Agriculture, 
assisting in the implementation of this Act.

SEC. 12. REQUIREMENT TO SAFEGUARD LOCAL PRODUCTION AND USUAL MARKETING.

    The requirement of section 403(a) of the Agricultural Trade 
Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1733(a) and 1733(h)) 
shall apply with respect to the availability of commodities under this 
Act.

Answer:
George McGovern-Robert Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, using specified authority under the Agricultural Act of 1949, to provide eligible commodities and financial and technical assistance to establish and expand overseas preschool and school feeding programs, and maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs.Urges the President to engage multilateral and private sector involvement.