No Hungry Kids in Schools Act

No Hungry Kids in Schools Act

This bill modifies the school meal programs of the Department of Agriculture to establish an option for states to utilize a statewide community eligibility program for certain special assistance payments.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9482 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9482

To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish 
    statewide community eligibility for certain special assistance 
                   payments, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2022

Ms. Porter (for herself, Mr. Aguilar, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Norton, Ms. Wilson 
 of Florida, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Gottheimer, and Mr. DeSaulnier) 
 introduced the following bill; which was 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 establish 
    statewide community eligibility for certain special assistance 
                   payments, 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 ``No Hungry Kids in Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. STATEWIDE COMMUNITY ELIGIBILITY.

    Section 11(a)(1)(F) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1759a(a)(1)(F)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
                            ``(xiv) Statewide community eligibility.--
                        For each school year beginning on or after July 
                        1, 2023, the Secretary shall establish an 
                        option for States to utilize a statewide 
                        community eligibility program, for purposes of 
                        which, in the case of a State agency that 
                        agrees to provide funding from sources other 
                        than Federal funds to ensure that local 
                        educational agencies in the State receive the 
                        free reimbursement rate for 100 percent of the 
                        meals served at applicable schools--
                                    ``(I) the threshold described in 
                                clause (viii) shall be zero; and
                                    ``(II) the percentage of enrolled 
                                students who were identified students 
                                shall be calculated across all 
                                applicable schools in the State 
                                regardless of local educational 
                                agency.''.
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