42 USC Ch. 13: Front Matter
From Title 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARECHAPTER 13-SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS
CHAPTER 13-SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS
Sec.
1751.
Congressional declaration of policy.
1752.
Authorization of appropriations; "Secretary" defined.
1753.
Apportionments to States.
1754.
Repealed.
1755.
Direct expenditures for agricultural commodities and other foods.
(a)
Administrative expenses; nutritional education; pilot projects; cash-in-lieu of commodities study; refusal of commodities and receipt of other commodities available to the State in lieu of the refused commodities.
(b)
Delivery of commodities.
(c)
Level of commodity assistance; computation of index; calculation of total assistance to each State; emphasis on high protein foods; per meal value of donated foods.
(d)
Termination of commodity assistance based upon school breakfast program.
(e)
Minimum percentage of commodity assistance.
1756.
Payments to States.
(a)
State revenue matching requirements; special provisions for lower than average income per capita States.
(b)
Disbursements; private schools.
(c)
Certification of payments by Secretary.
(d)
Combined Federal and State commodity purchases.
1757.
State disbursement to schools.
(a)
Disbursement by State educational agency.
(b)
Permanent, amendable agreements.
(c)
Suspension or termination of agreements.
(d)
Use of funds.
(e)
Limitation.
(f)
Increase in meal reimbursement.
(g)
In advance or as reimbursement.
1758.
Program requirements.
(a)
Nutritional standards; medical and special dietary needs of individual students; compliance assistance; fluid milk; acceptance of offered foods.
(b)
Income eligibility guidelines for free and reduced price school lunches; duty of Secretary; time to prescribe; relationship to other poverty guidelines; revision; publication; application, verification and approval; use or disclosure of eligibility information; maximum reduced price; nondiscrimination or identification of recipients.
(c)
Operation on nonprofit basis; donation of agricultural commodities.
(d)
Social Security numbers and other documentation required as condition of eligibility.
(e)
Limitation on meal contracting.
(f)
Nutritional requirements.
(g)
Justification of production records; paperwork reduction.
(h)
Food safety inspections.
(i)
Single permanent agreement between State agency and school food authority; common claims form.
1759.
Direct disbursement to schools by Secretary.
1759a.
Special assistance funds.
(a)
Formula for computation of payments; computation for lunches to eligible children in schools funding service to ineligible children from non-Federal sources; special assistance factors; annual adjustments.
(b)
Financing cost of free and reduced price lunches on basis of need of school for special assistance; maximum per lunch amount.
(c)
Payments to States.
(d)
Report of school to State educational agency, contents; report of State educational agency to Secretary, contents.
(e)
Eligibility of commodity only schools for special assistance payments; free and reduced price meals; discrimination and identification prohibited.
(f)
Information and assistance concerning reimbursement options.
1760.
Miscellaneous provisions.
(a)
Accounts and records.
(b)
Agreements with State educational agencies.
(c)
Requirements with respect to teaching personnel, curriculum, instruction, etc.
(d)
Definitions.
(e)
Value of assistance as income or resources under Federal or State laws.
(f)
Adjustment of national average payment rate for Alaska, Hawaii, territories and possessions, etc.
(g)
Criminal penalties.
(h)
Combined allocation for breakfast and lunch.
(i)
Use of school lunch facilities for elderly programs.
(j)
Reimbursement for final claims.
(k)
Expedited rulemaking.
(l)
Waiver of statutory and regulatory requirements.
(m)
Food and nutrition projects.
(n)
Buy American.
(o)
Procurement contracts.
1761.
Summer food service programs for children in service institutions.
(a)
Assistance to States; definitions; facilities to be used; eligible service institutions; order of priority in participation; assistance to rural area eligible service institutions to participate in the programs; reimbursement of camps, limitations, local, municipal and county institutions to be run by government; eligible private nonprofit organizations.
(b)
Service institutions.
(c)
Payments for meals served during May through September; exceptions for continuous school calendars or non-school sites; National Youth Sports Program.
(d)
Advance program payments to States for monthly meal service; letters of credit, forwarding to States; determination of amount; valid claims, receipt.
(e)
Advance program payments to service institutions for monthly meal service; certification of personnel training sessions; minimum days per month operations requirement; payments: computation, limitation; valid claims, receipt; withholding; demand for repayment; subtraction of disputed payments.
(f)
Nutritional standards.
(g)
Regulations, guidelines, applications, and handbooks; publication; startup costs.
(h)
Direct disbursement to service institutions by Secretary.
(i)
Repealed.
(j)
Administrative expenses of Secretary; authorization of appropriations.
(k)
Administrative costs of State; payment; adjustment; standards and effective dates, establishment; funds: withholding, inspection.
(l)
Food service management companies; subcontracts; assignments, conditions and limitations; meal capacity information in bids subject to review; registration; record, availability to States; small and minority-owned businesses for supplies and services; contracts: standard form, bid and contract procedures, bonding requirements and exemption, review by States, collusive bidding safeguards.
(m)
Accounts and records.
(n)
Management and administration plan; notification and submittal to Secretary; specific provisions.
(o)
Violations and penalties.
(p)
Monitoring of participating private nonprofit organizations.
(q)
Authorization of appropriations.
1762.
Repealed.
1762a.
Commodity distribution program.
(a)
Applicable period; use of funds for purchase of agricultural commodities and products for donation.
(b)
Nutrition quality and content information.
(c)
Authorization of appropriations for purchase of products or for cash payments in lieu of donations.
(d)
Assistance procedures; cost and benefits, review; technical assistance; report to Congress; food quality standards contracting procedures.
(e)
Consultation with school representatives.
(f)
Commodity only schools.
(g)
Extension of alternative means of assistance.
1763, 1764. Repealed.
1765.
Election to receive cash payments.
1766.
Child and adult care food program.
(a)
Grants-in-aid; "institution" defined; guidelines for institutions providing care to children outside of school hours; eligibility.
(b)
Limitations on cash assistance.
(c)
Formula for computation of payments; national average payment rate.
(d)
Requirements for approval; notification; reapplication.
(e)
Hearing.
(f)
State disbursement to institutions.
(g)
Meals served by participating institutions; compliance assistance.
(h)
Donation of agricultural commodities by Secretary; measurement of value; annual readjustment of assistance; cash in lieu of commodities; Department of Defense child care feeding program.
(i)
Availability of money for audits.
(j)
Standard form agreement regulations.
(k)
Training and technical assistance.
(l)
Non-diminishment of State and local funds.
(m)
Accounts and records.
(n)
Authorization of appropriations.
(o)
Participation of older persons and chronically impaired disabled persons.
(p)
Demonstration projects for qualification under this section of private for-profit organizations providing nonresidential day care services.
(q)
Management support.
(r)
Program for at-risk school children.
(s)
Information concerning the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children.
(t)
Participation by emergency shelters.
1766a.
Meal supplements for children in afterschool care.
(a)
General authority.
(b)
Eligible children.
(c)
Reimbursement.
(d)
Contents of supplements.
1766b to 1768. Repealed.
1769.
Pilot projects.
(a)
Pilot projects for administration of child nutrition programs by contract or direct disbursement.
(b)
Extension of eligibility of certain school districts to receive cash or commodity letters of credit assistance for school lunch programs.
(c)
Alternative counting and claiming procedures.
(d)
Fortified fluid milk.
(e)
Breakfast pilot projects.
1769a.
Repealed.
1769b.
Department of Defense overseas dependents' schools.
(a)
Purpose of program; availability of payments and commodities.
(b)
Administration of program; eligibility determinations and regulations.
(c)
Nutritional standards for meals; noncompliance with standards.
(d)
Authorization of appropriations.
(e)
Technical assistance for administration of program.
1769b–1.
Training, technical assistance, and food service management institute.
(a)
General authority.
(b)
Minimum requirements.
(c)
Duties of food service management institute.
(d)
Coordination.
(e)
Authorization of appropriations.
1769c.
Compliance and accountability.
(a)
Unified accountability system.
(b)
Functions of system.
(c)
Role of Secretary.
(d)
Authorization of appropriations.
1769d, 1769e. Repealed.
1769f.
Duties of Secretary relating to nonprocurement debarment.
(a)
Purposes.
(b)
Definitions.
(c)
Assistance to identify and prevent fraud and anticompetitive activities.
(d)
Nonprocurement debarment.
(e)
Mandatory debarment.
(f)
Exhaustion of administrative remedies.
(g)
Information relating to prevention and control of anticompetitive activities.
1769g.
Information clearinghouse.
(a)
In general.
(b)
Nongovernmental organization.
(c)
Audits.
(d)
Funding.
1769h.
Accommodation of the special dietary needs of individuals with disabilities.
(a)
Definitions.
(b)
Activities.
(c)
Authorization of appropriations.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in sections 1633, 1643, 1772, 1776, 1776a, 1776b, 1779, 1782, 1785, 9858m of this title; title 7 sections 1431c, 4004; title 8 sections 1255a, 1613, 1615, 1632; title 20 sections 1070a–22, 1070a–24, 1070a–26, 6313; title 26 section 1397E; title 31 section 3803; title 40 section 474; title 48 section 1666.