42 USC Ch. 13: Front Matter
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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Repealed.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)
Interim source of funds, pending supplemental appropriation of additional funds for carrying out subsection (b).
(d)
State matching provisions inapplicable to subsection (b) or (c) funds.
(e)
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.
(f)
Termination of commodity assistance based upon school breakfast program.
(g)
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; purpose; "child" and "children" defined; food costs; limitation.
1758.
Program requirements.
(a)
Nutritional standards; medical and special dietary needs of individual students; compliance assistance; fluid milk and lowfat cheese; diminution of food waste; 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)
Donation and maximum utilization of agricultural commodities; applicability to nonprofit private schools.
(d)
Social Security numbers and other documentation required as condition of eligibility.
(e)
Limitation on meal contracting.
(f)
Nutritional information.
(g)
Justification of production records; paperwork reduction.
(h)
Use of nutrition education and training program resources.
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)
Terms and conditions.
(e)
Report of school to State educational agency, contents; report of State educational agency to Secretary, contents.
(f)
Eligibility of commodity only schools for special assistance payments; free and reduced price meals; discrimination and identification prohibited.
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.
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)
Payments to service institutions; food service operations costs: adjustments in maximum reimbursement levels; meals per day limitation; budget for administrative costs: submittal and approval by State; administrative cost payments: maximum allowable levels; study of food service operations and administrative costs: report to Congress.
(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; compliance assistance; free cost meals to children in approved institutions; camp services, charges for meals to ineligible children; quality assurance, model specifications and standards; meal preparation contracts, requirements; inspection and testing.
(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)
Dissemination of information to potentially eligible private nonprofit organizations.
(q)
Monitoring of participating private nonprofit organizations.
(r)
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)
Products included in food donations; 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)
State advisory councils; establishment; membership; function.
(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; time of payment; notification; maximum per meal reimbursement rate; election of manner of reimbursement by certain institutions; reimbursement of administrative expenses; start-up and expansion funds; advance payments.
(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; demonstration projects.
(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)
WIC information.
1766a.
Meal supplements for children in afterschool care.
(a)
General authority.
(b)
Eligible children.
(c)
Reimbursement.
(d)
Contents of supplements.
1766b.
Homeless children nutrition program.
(a)
In general.
(b)
Agreements to participate in projects.
(c)
Project requirements.
(d)
Funding priorities.
(e)
Notice.
(f)
Plan to allow participation in child and adult care food program.
(g)
Funding.
(h)
"Emergency shelter" defined.
1767, 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)
Demonstration program for prevention of boarder babies.
(d)
Alternative counting and claiming procedures.
(e)
Demonstration program to provide meals and supplements outside of school hours.
(f)
Fortified fluid milk.
(g)
Increased choices of fruits, vegetables, legumes, cereals, and grain-based products.
(h)
Increased choices of lowfat dairy products and lean meat and poultry products.
(i)
Reduced paperwork and application requirements and increased participation pilots.
1769a.
Reduction of paperwork.
(a)
In general.
(b)
Consultation; public comment.
(c)
Report.
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.
Information on income eligibility.
(a)
Information to be provided.
(b)
Time for provision of information.
(c)
Form simplification.
1769e.
Nutrition guidance for child nutrition programs.
(a)
Nutrition guidance publication.
(b)
Revision of menu planning guides.
(c)
Application of nutrition guidance to meal programs.
(d)
Implementation.
(e)
Revision of publication.
(f)
Covered programs.
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.
Guidance and grants for accommodating special dietary needs of children with disabilities.
(a)
Definitions.
(b)
Guidance.
(c)
Grants.

        

Chapter Referred to in Other Sections

This chapter is referred to in sections 1633, 1643, 1772, 1773, 1776, 1776a, 1776b, 1779, 1782, 1785, 1788, 9858m of this title; title 7 sections 1431c, 4004; title 8 section 1255a; title 20 sections 1070a–23, 2341, 6313; title 31 section 3803; title 40 section 474; title 48 section 1666.