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.
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.
Identifies those rules and regulations as:
Prohibits the Secretary from defining the phrase "costs of complying" or establishing or suggesting how a school food authority is to calculate those costs or increased costs for complying.
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.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3663 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3663
To prohibit regulations establishing certain limits for the school
lunch program, and for other purposes.
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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
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A BILL
To prohibit regulations establishing certain limits for the school
lunch program, 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 ``Reducing Federal Mandates on School
Lunch Act''.
SEC. 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.).
SEC. 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.).
SEC. 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.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
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