Ensuring All Students Year-round (EASY) Access to Meals and Snacks Act

Ensuring All Students Year-round (EASY) Access to Meals and Snacks Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reimburse private nonprofit and local government service institutions (other than public schools) under the school lunch program for up to one meal and one snack per child each day during after-school hours, weekends, and school holidays during the regular school calendar. (Currently, such institutions are reimbursed for meals and snacks served to children over the summer months or to children who are on vacation under a continuous school calendar.)

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4274 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4274

To amend section 13(a) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
 Act (42 U.S.C. 1761(a)) to permit certain service institutions in all 
                 States to provide year-round services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2009

Mr. Larsen of Washington (for himself and Mrs. Emerson) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 13(a) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
 Act (42 U.S.C. 1761(a)) to permit certain service institutions in all 
                 States to provide year-round services.

    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 ``Ensuring All Students Year-round 
(EASY) Access to Meals and Snacks Act''.

SEC. 2. YEAR-ROUND SERVICES FOR ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.

    Section 13(a) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1761(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following--
            ``(11) Year-round option.--A service institution that is 
        described in paragraph (6) (excluding a public school), or a 
        private nonprofit organization described in paragraph (7) shall 
        be eligible for the program under the same terms and conditions 
        as other service institutions, except that such service 
        institution, in addition to being eligible for reimbursement 
        for meals described in subsection (b)(2) served during each day 
        of operation during the periods described in subsection (c)(1), 
        may be reimbursed for up to 1 meal and 1 snack per child served 
        during each day of operation during--
                    ``(A) after school hours;
                    ``(B) weekends; and
                    ``(C) school holidays during the regular school 
                calendar.''.

SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    Section 18(h) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1769(h)) is hereby repealed.
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