Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Title I: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Part A: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act - Amends the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to eliminate certain duplicate provisions. Requires that lunches served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program offer students fluid whole milk and fluid unflavored lowfat milk. Makes certain private nonprofit organizations eligible to sponsor programs under the Summer Food Service Program for Children under specified conditions, including limitations on numbers of children served and on rural or urban sites. Requires a one-year waiting period from the time a public agency stops sponsoring the program in an area to the time certain private nonprofit organizations can begin such meal service to children in that area. Makes such waiting period inapplicable upon determination that the public agency would have discontinued its program participation regardless of whether a private nonprofit organization was available to sponsor the program in that area. Allows higher education institutions that participate in the National Youth Sports Program to receive payments for meals served to children under such Program during the academic year, as well as during May through September, if the same State agency administers such program, under specified guidelines to be issued by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) and the States, during FY 1990 and 1991, to disseminate information to potentially eligible private nonprofit organizations concerning the amendments made by this Act regarding the eligibility of private nonprofit organizations for the Summer Food Service Program for Children. Directs the Secretary, in addition to the normal monitoring of organizations receiving assistance under the Summer Food Service Program for Children, to establish a system under which the Secretary and the States monitor the compliance of private nonprofit organizations with requirements under such program. Requires that application forms or other printed materials provided to organizations intending to participate contain warnings about criminal penalties and termination procedures. Directs the Secretary to require and assist each State to establish and implement an ongoing training and technical assistance program for private nonprofit organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to reserve a specified portion of program funds for such purposes. Extends through FY 1994 the authorization of appropriations for the Summer Food Service Program for Children. Extends through FY 1994 the general authority for the Commodity Distribution Program (under which the Secretary provides commodities to participating schools for use in the school lunch program). Revises provisions relating to the computation of cash compensation to school districts under the Commodity Distribution Program. Abolishes the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition. Renames the Child Care Food Program and the Adult Care Food Program as the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Provides that eligible organizations under the Child Care Food Program must be reimbursed for expansion into low-income or rural areas. Directs the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects to test innovative approaches to remove or reduce barriers to Child Care Food Program participation by family or group day care homes operating in low-income areas or primarily serving low-income children. Directs the Secretary and State agencies to provide training and technical assistance to help family and group day care home sponsoring organizations in reaching low-income children. Requires that meals served in adult day care programs, which are reimbursed under such day care food program, provide on the average at least one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowance. Requires such day care programs to make reasonable efforts to serve meals that meet the special dietary requirements of participants, including efforts to serve foods in forms palatable to them. Authorizes designation of a State agency other than that which administers the child care food program to administer the adult day care food program. Directs the Secretary to carry out two statewide demonstration projects in which private for-profit organizations providing nonresidential day care services shall qualify as institutions for purposes of the Child Care Food Program, if at least 25 percent of the children served by each such organization meet the income eligibility criteria for free or reduced price meals. Requires examination of: (1) the budgetary impact of such change in eligibility on the extent to which additional low-income children can be reached through such change; and (2) the most effective outreach methods. Sets forth guidelines for choosing the two States. Requires such demonstration projects to begin between May 1, 1990, and June 30, 1990, and to terminate on September 30, 1992. Amends the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 to extend until September 30, 1990, a selected State (Minnesota) demonstration project to test the nutritional and participatory impact of providing an additional meal to children staying in family or group day care homes for at least eight hours. Establishes a program of meal supplements for children in after-school care. Directs the Secretary to provide grants-in-aid and other assistance to States for such program in eligible elementary and secondary schools (which operate school lunch programs, sponsor after-school care programs, and participate in the child care food program as of May 15, 1989). Provides for reimbursement for such supplements for children who are not more than 12 years of age (or not more than 15 years of age, in the case of children of migrant workers or children with handicaps). Sets forth administrative provisions relating to payment rates, eligibility for supplements, and content of meal supplements. Extends until September 30, 1992, certain pilot projects under which school districts receive cash payments or commodity letters of credit, instead of donated commodities, under the school lunch program, and under which compensation for certain losses is authorized. Directs the Secretary, directly or through contract, to administer such project. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct demonstration projects designed to provide food service throughout the year to homeless children under age six in emergency shelters; (2) enter into agreements with private nonprofit organizations to participate in such projects; (3) establish specified types of eligibility requirements for such organizations; and (4) expend specified minimum amounts for such projects in FY 1990 through 1994. Requires at least one such project to begin by September 30, 1990, and all such projects to cease to operate by September 30, 1994. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out NSLA and CNA, to: (1) reduce to the maximum extent possible the paperwork required of State and local educational agencies, schools, and other agencies participating in nutrition programs; (2) consult with State and local administrators, convene at least one meeting with them within ten months, and obtain suggestions from members of the public with respect to paperwork reduction; and (3) report within one year to the Congress on the extent to which such paperwork reduction has occurred. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct training activities and provide technical assistance to improve specified skills of school food service program employees (in coordination with activities of any food service management institute established by this Act); and (2) establish and maintain a Food Service Management Institute for research, training, technical assistance, and information clearinghouse activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for such training and technical assistance and for such Institute. Establishes a unified system, to be prescribed and administered by the Secretary, for ensuring that participating local food service authorities comply with school lunch program requirements. Sets forth compliance monitoring duties of the Secretary and State educational agencies under such system, including a duty to minimize imposition of additional duties on local food service authorities. Authorizes appropriations (in addition to certain CNA funds) for such compliance and accountability activities for FY 1990 through 1994. Directs the Secretary to provide to each appropriate State agency specified information on income eligibility of children to receive free or reduced price meals and on consideration of applications where the head of the household is less than 21 years old. Directs the Secretary to review and simplify application forms and instructions for programs under NSLA and CNA by July 1, 1990. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to jointly develop and approve, and update as necessary, a publication on nutrition guidance for child nutrition programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) distribute such publication to school food authorities and other organizations participating in programs under the NSLA and CNA; and (2) revise menu planning guides to include recommendations for implementing such guidance. Requires school food authorities and other organizations to apply such dietary guidance in preparing meals and supplements under the school lunch program and the school breakfast program. Part B: Programs Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to provide for expansion of the School Breakfast Program. Requires State educational agencies (SEAs) to: (1) provide information to school boards and public officials on the benefits and availability of the School Breakfast Program; and (2) select each year, for informational efforts concerning such program, schools which do not participate in such program and in which a substantial portion of the enrollment consists of children from low-income families. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to report by October 1, 1993, to specified congressional committees on Federal and State efforts to increase participation of schools in the school breakfast program. Directs the Secretary to use specified amounts from appropriations for such program in FY 1990 through 1994 to make payments on a competitive basis to SEAs in a substantial number of States for startup costs of school breakfast programs at eligible schools which have a significant percentage of enrollment of children from low-income families and which agree to operate such a program for at least three years. Gives preference to SEAs that: (1) submit plans for expanding such programs; (2) do not have a breakfast program available to a large number of low-income children; or (3) serve a low percentage of free and reduced price breakfasts compared to that of free and reduced price lunches served. Requires SEAs to give preference to schools in greatest need. Directs the Secretary to report by December 31, 1993, to specified congressional committees on Federal and State efforts to increase participation of schools in the school breakfast program. Revises provisions for funds for State administrative expenses to limit the amount of such funds which a State may carry over for an additional year. Provides that remaining funds in excess of this carry over limit must be returned to the Secretary for use for grants to private nonprofit organizations participating in pilot projects under NSLA and, if any amounts remain, for further payments for certain State administrative costs. Requires that appropriate reimbursement go to the State agency administering commodity distribution under CNA and NSLA. Requires States to agree to participate fully in studies authorized by the Secretary in order to receive payments for State administrative expenses. Extends through FY 1994 the authorization of appropriations for such State administrative expenses payments. Sets forth additional activities and requirements with respect to the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Provides that income limits for the WIC program are met by persons who meet income limits for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch program, who receive food stamps or Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or Medicaid, or who are members of a family in which a pregnant woman or an infant receives Medicaid. Allows a State agency to exclude military housing allowances from income for purposes of WIC program eligibility. Requires State agencies to provide adult participants in and applicants for the WIC program with information on food stamps, AFDC, and the child support enforcement program. Requires State agencies to provide such participants and applicants also with information on Medicaid, and to refer them to Medicaid if they are not participating in it and appear to have family income below its limits. Requires State agencies to ensure that each local agency under the WIC program maintains and makes available for distribution a list of local resources for substance abuse counseling and treatment. Includes local breastfeeding promotion programs and alcohol and drug abuse treatment (as well as counseling) programs among those with which the WIC program is to be coordinated under the State plan. Requires the State WIC plan to include a provision for: (1) getting benefits to eligible persons most in need; (2) reaching eligible persons not participating with program information, eligibility criteria, and application procedures; (3) reaching and enrolling eligible women in the early months of pregnancy and eligible migrants; (4) getting program benefits to unserved infants and children under care of foster parents, protective services, or child welfare authorities, including infants exposed to drugs perinatally; (5) nutrition education and breastfeeding promotion; and (6) improving program access for rural workers and residents. Requires such State WIC plans, if the State agency chooses to provide program benefits to some or all eligible individuals who are incarcerated in prisons or juvenile detention facilities, to include a plan for providing them such benefits and meeting their special nutrition education needs. Requires local WIC agencies operating within or in cooperation with a hospital to: (1) advise of the availability of WIC program benefits any potentially eligible individuals who receive inpatient or outpatient prenatal, maternity, or postpartum services, or accompany a child under age five receiving well-child services; and (2) provide an opportunity within the hospital for certification for WIC participation. Requires State agencies to notify participants, giving relevant categories, before suspending or terminating WIC benefits due to a shortage of funds. Requires State agencies for WIC to provide breastfeeding promotion materials and instruction in languages other than English. Allows State agencies to adopt methods of delivering benefits to accommodate the special needs and problems of individuals who are incarcerated in prisons or juvenile detention facilities. Allows State agencies to implement WIC income eligibility guidelines at the time the State implements such guidelines for Medicaid, as long as this is not later than July 1 of each year. Requires local WIC agencies to provide information on other potential sources of food assistance in the local area to individuals who apply in person but cannot be served because the local WIC program is operating at capacity. Requires State agencies to require local WIC agencies to: (1) attempt to contact pregnant women to reschedule missed application appointments; and (2) if such agencies do not routinely do so, schedule application or recertification appointments to minimize the time of employed individuals' absence from their workplace. Extends through FY 1994 the authorization of appropriations for the WIC program. Sets forth provisions for availability and allocation of such funds. Increases the amount which may be reserved for studies, evaluation, and pilot projects. Directs the Secretary, on completion of the 1990 decennial census and in coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to make available an estimate, by State and county, of the number of women, infants, and children who are members of families with incomes below the maximum limit for WIC program participation. Requires the Secretary to make available in each fiscal year, from WIC program funds, an amount sufficient to guarantee a national average per participant grant to be allocated for costs of WIC nutrition services and administration incurred by State and local agencies. Sets forth formulas for adjusting such amount and for determining State allotments. Provides that remaining amounts shall be made available for specified food benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to reduce a State agency's operational level for costs of nutritional services and administration if that level exceeds the grant by more than 15 percent without good cause. Requires State agencies to expend a specified portion of WIC funds for nutrition education and breastfeeding promotion and support. Allows State agencies, under specified conditions, to convert allocations for food benefits to costs of nutrition services and administration. Sets forth provisions relating to WIC program cost containment systems. Requires States to use either competitive bidding, or an equally or more effective system of cost containment, for the procurement of infant formula. Requires the Secretary to inform specified congressional committees of waivers from such requirement. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance in achieving cost containment to: (1) small Indian and State agencies; and (2) upon request, State agencies that do not have large caseloads and that desire to consider a cost containment system that covers more than one State agency. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the competitive bidding or cost containment system requirement for any Indian or State agency with 1,000 or fewer participants. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a demonstration program of WIC clinics at community colleges that offer nursing education programs. Directs the Secretary to evaluate such demonstration programs and report to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992 for such demonstration program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants based on need to State agencies to improve and update information and data systems used to carry out WIC programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for such grants. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1990 and 1991, to review, and report to specified congressional committees on, the relationship between specified nutritional risk criteria and the priority system used under the WIC program. Directs the Secretary to review, and report to the Congress by the end of June 1991 and 1992, the appropriateness of foods eligible for purchase under the WIC program. Directs the Secretary to review, and report on to the appropriate congressional committees within one year, the effect on costs for nutrition services and administration incurred by State and local agencies of specified amendments made by this Act (including increases and decreases in imposed requirements). Prohibits the Secretary, in implementing specified amendments to the WIC program under this Act, from imposing any new requirement on a State or local agency to place additional paperwork in, or otherwise additionally document, any case file maintained by it. Revises CNA provisions for nutrition education and training. Includes institutions offering summer food service programs under the NSLA under provisions for nutrition education activities. Provides that personnel training shall be consistent with information and materials provided by a food service management institute. Increases and extends through FY 1994 the authorization of appropriations for such nutrition education and training programs under the CNA. Requires, subject to minimum State grant requirements, that the amount of a State grant be based on a rate of 50 cents for each child enrolled in schools or institutions within such State, and that such amount be ratably reduced or increased depending on the amount appropriated. Sets forth increased minimum State grant requirements based on the amount appropriated. Directs the Secretary to assess nutrition and education programs under the CNA to determine what nutrition education needs are for children participating under the NSLA in the school lunch, summer food service, and child care food programs. Requires completion of such assessment by October 1, 1990. Part C: Cross-Program Provisions - Revises provisions for determination of total commodity assistance for the school lunch and child care food programs under the NSLA. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to estimate the total number of commodities to be delivered to each school or child care institution in the current year. Requires adjustments for differences between such prior year and current year numbers of meals served in subsequent estimations. Title II: Paperwork Reduction Amendments - Part A: Reduction of Paperwork Under the National School Lunch Act - Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Lunch Program under the NSLA be permanent agreements that may be amended as necessary, but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Authorizes the Secretary, State, or local food authority to verify data in the application. Authorizes any school food authority to certify any child for free or reduced price lunches, without further application, by directly communicating with the appropriate State or local agency to obtain documentation of the child's membership in a household receiving food stamps or a family receiving AFDC. Provides that the member of the household who executes the application for the school lunch program must furnish only the social security account number of the parent or guardian who is the primary wage earner responsible for the care of the child for whom the application is made, or that of another appropriate member of the child's household; but requires that social security numbers for all adult household members be furnished if verification is sought. Authorizes the Secretary, when appropriate, to request each school food authority in the school lunch program to report monthly to the SEA. Directs the Secretary to permit institutions participating in the child care food program, at the option of the State agency, to reapply for such assistance at two-year intervals. Directs the Secretary to carry out pilot projects in which schools with high percentages of low-income children have the option of using alternative methods of daily meal counting. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct other pilot projects to test alternative counting and claiming procedures. Requires evaluation after three years of operation. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year on the extent to which paperwork reduction has occurred under the NSLA. Part B: Reduction of Paperwork Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Requires SEAs to disburse funds paid to the State under the Special Milk Program to schools in accordance with agreements approved by the Secretary. Requires that such agreements be permanent (amendable as necessary) but does not limit the SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Breakfast Program be permanent agreements (amendable as necessary), but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Allows local agencies under the WIC program to use a master file to document and monitor provision of nutrition education services to individuals required to be included by the agency in group nutrition education classes. Authorizes State agencies under the WIC program to provide for delivery of vouchers to any participant not scheduled for nutrition education counseling or recertification interview through means, such as mailing, that do not require a participant to travel to the local agency. Requires State plans to describe mail issuance of vouchers. Prohibits disapproval of the mail issuance of vouchers in specified jurisdictions unless the Secretary finds that it would pose a significant threat to program integrity. Requires each State agency to conduct monitoring reviews of each local agency at least biennially under the WIC program. Requires plans for nutrition education and training to be updated annually. Title III: Technical Amendments - Part A: Amendments to the National School Lunch Act - Makes various technical amendments to the NSLA, including elimination of gender-specific references. Part B: Amendments to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Makes various technical amendments to the CNA, including elimination of gender-specific references.
HR 24 - 101Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989
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Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Title I: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Subtitle A: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act - Amends the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to eliminate certain duplicate provisions. Requires that lunches served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program offer students fluid whole milk and fluid unflavored lowfat milk. Makes certain private nonprofit organizations eligible to sponsor programs under the Summer Food Service Program for Children under specified conditions, including limitations on numbers of children served and on rural or urban sites. Requires that such organizations: (1) either use self-preparation facilities to prepare meals or obtain meals from a public facility or a school participating in the National School Lunch Program; and (2) provide ongoing year-round activities for children or families. Makes such organizations ineligible for such program when they are in areas where a school food authority or the local, municipal, or county government has indicated by March 1 of that year that it will operate such a program under the Summer Food Service Program for Children. Allows higher education institutions that participate in the National Youth Sports Program to receive payments for meals served to children under such Program during the academic year, as well as during May through September. Extends through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for the Summer Food Service Program for Children. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) and State agencies, during FY 1990 and 1991, to disseminate information to potentially eligible private nonprofit organizations concerning the amendments made by this Act regarding the eligibility of private nonprofit organizations for the Summer Food Service Program for Children. Directs the Secretary to use funds for such summer program to institute one or more demonstration projects designed to provide year-round food service to homeless children under age six in emergency shelters. Allows private nonprofit organizations to be eligible to participate in such project under specified conditions. Limits the amounts to be expended by the Secretary for such projects. Requires such projects to commence before the end of FY 1990 and terminate at the end of FY 1992. Extends through FY 1993 the general authority for the Commodity Distribution Program (under which the Secretary provides commodities to participating schools for use in the school lunch program). Revises provisions relating to the computation of cash compensation to school districts under the Commodity Distribution Program. Abolishes the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition. Provides that eligible organizations under the Child Care Food Program must be reimbursed for expansion into low-income or rural areas. Directs the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects to test innovative approaches to remove or reduce barriers to Child Care Food Program participation by family or group day care homes operating in low-income areas or primarily serving low-income children. Directs the Secretary and State agencies to provide training and technical assistance to help family and group day care home sponsoring organizations in reaching low-income children. Requires that meals served in adult day care programs, which are reimbursed under such day care food program, provide on the average at least one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowance. Requires such adult day care programs to make reasonable efforts to serve meals that meet the special dietary requirements of participants, including efforts to serve foods in forms palatable to them. Authorizes designation of a State agency other than that which administers the child care food program to administer the adult day care food program. Directs the Secretary to carry out, in Iowa and Kentucky, statewide demonstration projects in which private for-profit organizations providing nonresidential day care services shall qualify as institutions for purposes of the Child Care Food Program, if at least 25 percent of the children served by each such organization meet the income eligibility criteria for free or reduced price meals. Requires examination of: (1) the budgetary impact of such change in eligibility on the extent to which additional low-income children can be reached through such change; and (2) the most effective outreach methods. Requires such demonstration projects to begin on or after May 1, 1990, and to terminate on September 30, 1992. Amends the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 to extend until September 30, 1990, a selected State (Minnesota) demonstration project to test the nutritional and participatory impact of providing an additional meal to children staying in family or group day care homes for at least eight hours. Establishes a program of meal supplements for children in after-school care. Directs the Secretary to provide grants-in-aid and other assistance to States for such program in eligible elementary and secondary schools (which operate school lunch programs, sponsor after-school care programs, and participate in the child care food program as of May 15, 1989). Provides for reimbursement for such supplements for children who are not more than 12 years of age (or not more than 15 years of age, in the case of children of of migrant workers or children with handicaps). Sets forth administrative provisions relating to payment rates, eligibility for supplements, and content of meal supplements. Extends until September 30, 1992, certain pilot projects under which school districts receive cash payments or commodity letters of credit, instead of donated commodities, under the school lunch program, and under which compensation for certain losses is authorized. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain a Food Service Management Institute for research, training, technical assistance, and information clearinghouse activities. Authorizes appropriations for such institute for FY 1990 through 1993. Establishes a unified system, to be prescribed and administered by the Secretary, for ensuring that participating local food service authorities comply with school lunch program requirements. Sets forth compliance monitoring duties of the Secretary and State educational agencies under such system, including a duty to minimize imposition of additional duties on local food service authorities. Authorizes appropriations for such compliance and accountability activities for FY 1990 through 1993. Directs the Secretary to provide to each appropriate State agency specified information on income eligibility of children to receive free or reduced price meals and on consideration of applications where the head of the household is less than 21 years old. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to jointly develop and approve, and update as necessary, a publication on nutrition guidance for school food service programs. Directs the Secretary to distribute such publication to school food authorities and other organizations in the school lunch and school breakfast programs and ensure that meals and supplements under such programs are consistent with such guidance in that publication. Subtitle B: Programs Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to provide for expansion of the School Breakfast Program. Requires State educational agencies (SEAs) to: (1) provide information to school boards and public officials on the benefits and availability of the School Breakfast Program; and (2) select each year, for informational efforts concerning such program, schools which do not participate in such program and in which a substantial portion of the enrollment consists of children from low-income families. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to report annually to specified congressional committees on Federal and State efforts to increase participation of schools in the school breakfast program. Directs the Secretary to use specified amounts from appropriations for such program in FY 1990 through 1993 to make payments on a competitive basis to SEAs in a substantial number of States for startup costs of school breakfast programs at eligible schools which have a significant percentage of enrollment of children from low-income families and which agree to operate such a program for at least three years. Gives preference to SEAs that submit plans for expanding such programs or implement State laws requiring such expansion. Requires SEAs to give preference to schools in greatest need. Revises provisions for State administrative expenses to provide that appropriate reimbursements go to the State agency administering the school breakfast program (if it is other than the SEA) and to the State agency administering commodity distribution under CNA and NSLA. Requires States to agree to participate fully in studies authorized by the Secretary, in order to receive payments for State administrative expenses. Extends through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for such State administrative expenses payments. Sets forth additional activities and requirements with respect to the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Provides that income limits for the WIC program are met by persons who meet income limits for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch program, who receive food stamps or Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or Medicaid, or who are members of a family in which a pregnant woman or an infant receives Medicaid. Requires State agencies to provide adult participants in and applicants for the WIC program with information on food stamps, AFDC, and the child support enforcement program. Requires State agencies to provide such participants and applicants also with information on Medicaid, and to refer them to Medicaid if they are not participating in it and appear to have family income below its limits. Requires State agencies to ensure that each local agency under the WIC program maintains and makes available for distribution a list of local resources for substance abuse counseling and treatment. Includes local breastfeeding promotion programs and alcohol and drug abuse treatment (as well as counseling) programs among those with which the WIC program is to be coordinated under the State plan. Requires the State WIC plan to include provisions for: (1) getting benefits to eligible persons most in need; (2) reaching eligible persons not participating with program information, eligibility criteria, and application procedures; (3) reaching and enrolling eligible women in the early months of pregnancy and eligible migrants; (4) getting program benefits to unserved infants and children under care of foster parents, protective services, or child welfare authorities, including infants exposed to drugs perinatally; and (5) nutrition education and breastfeeding promotion. Requires local WIC agencies operating within or in cooperation with a hospital to: (1) advise of the availability of WIC program benefits any potentially eligible individuals who receive inpatient or outpatient prenatal, maternity, or postpartum services, or accompany a child under age five receiving well-child services; and (2) provide an opportunity within the hospital for certification for WIC participation. Requires State agencies to notify participants, giving relevant categories, before suspending or terminating WIC benefits due to a shortage of funds. Requires State agencies for WIC to provide breastfeeding promotion materials and instruction in languages other than English. Allows State agencies to implement WIC income eligibility guidelines at the time the State implements such guidelines for Medicaid, as long as this is not later than July 1 of each year. Requires local WIC agencies to provide written information on other potential sources of food assistance in the local area to individuals who apply in person but cannot be served because the local WIC program is operating at capacity. Requires State agencies to require local WIC agencies to: (1) attempt to contact pregnant women to reschedule missed application appointments; and (2) if such agencies do not routinely do so, schedule application or recertification appointments to minimize the time of employed individuals' absence from their workplace. Extends through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for the WIC program. Sets forth provisions for availability and allocation of such funds. Increases the amount which may be reserved for studies, evaluations, and pilot projects. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study, and report to specified congressional committees, on WIC program access problems of low-income working or rural family members. Directs the Secretary, on completion of the 1990 decennial census and in coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to make available an estimate, by State and county, of the number of women, infants, and children who are members of families with incomes below the maximum limit for WIC program participation. Requires the Secretary to make available in each fiscal year, from WIC program funds, an amount sufficient to guarantee a national average per participant grant to be allocated for costs of WIC nutrition services and administration incurred by State and local agencies. Sets forth formulas for adjusting such amount and for determining State allotments. Provides that remaining amounts shall be made available for specified food benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to reduce a State agency's operational level for costs of nutritional services and administration if that level exceeds the grant by more than 15 percent without good cause. Requires State agencies to expend a specified portion of WIC funds for nutrition education and breastfeeding promotion and support. Allows State agencies, under specified conditions, to convert allocations for food benefits to costs of nutrition services and administration. Sets forth provisions relating to WIC program cost containment systems. Requires States to use either competitive bidding, or an equally or more effective system of cost containment, for the procurement of infant formula. Requires the Secretary to inform specified congressional committees of waivers from such requirement. Directs the Secretary during FY 1990, to review, and report to specified congressional committees on, the relationship between specified nutritional risk criteria and the priority system used under the WIC program. Directs the Secretary to review, and report on the Congress by the end of FY 1990 and 1991, the appropriateness of foods eligible for purchase under the WIC program. Directs the Secretary to review, and report on to the appropriate congressional committees within one year, the effect on costs for nutrition services and administration incurred by State and local agencies of specified amendments made by this Act (including increases and decreases in imposed requirements). Prohibits the Secretary, in implementing specified amendments to the WIC program under this Act, from imposing any new requirement on a State or local agency to place additional paperwork in, or otherwise additionally document, any case file maintained by it. Revises CNA provisions for nutrition education and training. Authorizes appropriations in increasing amounts for FY 1989 through 1991 and subsequent fiscal years for such nutrition education and training programs. Subtitle C: Cross-Program Provisions - Eliminates the 20 percent commodity refusal option under the NSLA. Revises provisions for determination of total commodity assistance for the school lunch and child care food programs under the NSLA. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to estimate the total number of commodities to be delivered to each school or child care institution in the current year. Requires adjustments for differences between such prior year and current year numbers of meals served in subsequent estimations. Title II: Paperwork Reduction Amendments - Subtitle A: Reduction of Paperwork Under the National School Lunch Act - Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Lunch Program under the NSLA shall be permanent agreements that may be amended as necessary, but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Authorizes the Secretary, State, or local food authority to verify data in the application. Authorizes any school food authority to certify any child for free or reduced price lunches, without further application, by directly communicating with the appropriate State or local agency to obtain documentation of the child's membership in a household receiving food stamps or a family receiving AFDC. Authorizes the Secretary, when appropriate, to request each school food authority in the school lunch program to report monthly to the SEA. Directs the Secretary to permit institutions that apply directly to a State agency to participate in the child care food program, at the option of the State agency, to reapply for such assistance at two-year intervals. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the NSLA and CNA, to: (1) reduce, to the maximum extent possible, the paperwork required of SEAs, schools, and other agencies participating in child nutrition programs; (2) review and simplify application forms and instructions; (3) consult with State and local administrators in reducing and simplifying such paperwork; and (4) report within one year to the Congress on the extent of paperwork reduction in such programs. Subtitle B: Paperwork Reduction Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Requires SEAs to disburse funds paid to the State under the Special Milk Program to schools in accordance with agreements approved by the Secretary. Requires that such agreements be permanent ones (amendable as necessary); but does not limit the SEAs ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Breakfast Program be permanent agreements (amendable as necessary); but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Allows local agencies under the WIC program to use a master file to document and monitor provision of nutritional education services to individuals required to be included by the agency in group nutrition educational classes. Authorizes State agencies under the WIC program to provide for delivery of vouchers to any participant not scheduled for nutrition education counseling or recertification interview through means, such as mailing, that do not require a participant to travel to the local agency. Requires State plans to describe mail issuance of vouchers. Prohibits disapproval of the mail issuance of vouchers in specified jurisdictions unless the Secretary finds that it would pose a significant threat to program integrity. Requires each State agency to conduct monitoring reviews of each local agency at least biennially under the WIC program. Requires plans for nutrition education and training to be updated annually. Title III: Technical Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments to the National School Lunch Act - Makes various technical amendments to the NSLA, including elimination of gender-specific references. Subtitle B: Amendments to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Makes various technical amendments to the CNA, including elimination of gender-specific references. Repeals specified provisions for nutrition education grants.
Child Nutrition and WIC Amendments of 1989 - Title I: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Part A: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act - Amends the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to eliminate certain duplicate provisions. Requires that lunches served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program offer students fluid whole milk and and fluid unflavored lowfat milk. Makes certain private nonprofit organizations eligible to sponsor programs under the Summer Food Service Program for Children under specified conditions, including limitations on numbers of children served and on rural or urban sites. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the Summer Food Service Program for Children. Extends through FY 1995 the general authority for the Commodity Distribution Program (under which the Secretary provides commodities to participating schools for use in the school lunch program). Revises provisions relating to the computation of cash compensation to school districts under the Commodity Distribution Program. Abolishes the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition. Renames the Child Care Food Program and the Adult Care Food Program as the Dependent Care Food Program. Provides limited program monitoring requirements for certain programs that provide outside of school hours care for school children. Provides that eligible organizations under the Child Care Food Program must be reimbursed for expansion into low-income or rural areas. Requires that meals served in adult day care programs, which are reimbursed under the adult day care food program, provide on the average at least one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowance. Requires such adult day care programs to make reasonable efforts to serve meals that meet the special dietary requirements of participants, including efforts to serve foods in forms palatable to them. Authorizes designation of a State agency other than that which administers the child care food program to administer the adult day care food program. Establishes a program of meal supplements for children in after-school care. Directs the Secretary to provide grants-in-aid and other assistance to States for such program in eligible elementary and secondary schools (which operate school lunch programs, sponsor after-school care programs, and participate in the child care food program as of May 15, 1989). Provides for reimbursement for such supplements for children who are not more than 12 years of age (or not more than 15 years of age, in the case of children of migrant workers or children with handicaps). Sets forth administrative provisions relating to payment rates, eligibility for supplements, and content of meal supplements. Extends indefinitely certain pilot projects under which school districts receive cash payments or commodity letters of credit, instead of donated commodities, under the school lunch program, and under which compensation for certain losses is authorized. Directs the Secretary, directly or through contract, to administer such project. Directs the Secretary to review and simplify application forms and instructions for programs under the NSLA and under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA). Authorizes the Secretary to conduct training activities and provide technical assistance to improve specified skills of school food service program employees (in coordination with activities of any food service management institute established by this Act). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1995 for such training and technical assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain a Food Service Management Institute for research, training, technical assistance, and information clearinghouse activities. Authorizes appropriations for such institute for FY 1990 through 1995. Establishes a unified system, to be prescribed and administered by the Secretary, for ensuring that participating local food service authorities comply with school lunch program requirements. Sets forth compliance monitoring duties of the Secretary and State educational agencies under such system, including a duty to minimize imposition of additional duties on local food service authorities. Authorizes appropriations (in addition to certain CNA funds) for such compliance and accountability activities for FY 1990 through 1995. Directs the Secretary to provide to each appropriate State agency specified information on income eligibility of children to receive free or reduced price meals and on consideration of applications where the head of the household is less than 21 years old. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to jointly develop and approve, and update as necessary, a publication on dietary guidance for school food service programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) distribute such publication to school food authorities and other organizations participating in programs under the NSLA and CNA; and (2) revise menu planning guides to include recommendations for implementing such guidance. Requires school food authorities and other organizations to apply such dietary guidance in preparing meals and supplements under the school lunch program and the school breakfast program. Part B: Programs Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to reserve specified amounts for FY 1990 and succeeding fiscal years for the Secretary to make additional payments to State educational agencies (SEAs) to assist in initiation of breakfast programs in schools attended by children a significant percentage of whom are members of low-income families. Requires the Secretary to prescribe a formula for determining the amount of such payments based on each State's need for program expansion and other appropriate factors. Limits use of such funds to program start-up costs. Requires SEAs to: (1) give preference to schools demonstrating the greatest need; and (2) ensure that each school receiving such assistance will operate such program for at least three years. Revises provisions for funds for State administrative expenses to limit the amount of such funds which a State may carry over for an additional year. Provides that remaining funds in excess of this carry over limit must be returned to the Secretary for use under school food personnel training and technical assistance provisions of the NSLA. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for such State administrative expenses payments. Sets forth additional activities and requirements with respect to the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Provides that income limits for the WIC program are met by persons who meet income limits for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch program, who receive food stamps or Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or Medicaid, or who are members of a family in which a pregnant woman or an infant receives Medicaid. Provides that military housing allowances shall not be counted as income for purposes of WIC program eligibility. Requires State agencies to provide adult participants in and applicants for the WIC program with information on food stamps, AFDC, and the child support enforcement program. Requires State agencies to provide such participants and applicants also with information on Medicaid, and to refer them to Medicaid if they are not participating in it and appear to have family income below its limits. Requires State agencies to ensure that each local agency under the WIC program maintains and makes available for distribution a list of local resources for substance abuse counseling and treatment. Includes alcohol and drug abuse treatment (as well as counseling) programs among those with which the WIC program is to be coordinated under the State plan. Requires the State WIC plan to include a plan for providing program benefits to unserved infants and children under care of foster parents, protective services, or child welfare authorities, including infants exposed to drugs perinatally. Requires such State WIC plans, if the State agency choose to provide program benefits to some or all eligible individuals who are incarcerated in prisons or juvenile detention facilities, to include a plan for providing them such benefits and meeting their special nutrition education needs. Requires local WIC agencies operating within or in cooperation with a hospital to: (1) advise of the availability of WIC program benefits any potentially eligible individuals who receive inpatient or outpatient prenatal, maternity, or postpartum services, or accompany a child under age five receiving well-child services; and (2) provide an opportunity within the hospital for certification for WIC participation. Requires State agencies to notify participants, giving relevant categories, before suspending or terminating WIC benefits due to a shortage of funds. Allows State agencies to adopt methods of delivering benefits to accommodate the special needs and problems of individuals who are incarcerated in prisons or juvenile detention facilities. Allows State agencies to implement WIC income eligibility guidelines at the time the State implements such guidelines for Medicaid, as long as this is not later than July 1 of each year. Requires local WIC agencies to provide information on other potential sources of food assistance in the local area to individuals who apply in person but cannot be served because the local WIC program is operating at capacity. Requires State agencies to require local WIC agencies to: (1) attempt to contact pregnant women to reschedule missed application appointments; and (2) if such agencies do not routinely do so, schedule application or recertification appointments to minimize the time of employed individuals' absence from their workplace. Directs the Secretary to establish minimum standards for the locations and times at which WIC program services shall be available. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the WIC program. Sets forth provisions for availability and allocation of such funds. Increases the amount which may be reserved for studies, evaluation, and pilot projects. Reserves specified amounts in each fiscal year for the Secretary to make grants to State agencies, on a competitive basis, for projects to improve WIC program operation. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study, and a report to specified congressional committees, on WIC program access problems of low-income working or rural family members. Directs the Secretary, on completion of the 1990 decennial census and in coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to make available an estimate, by State and county, of the number of women, infants, and children who are members of families with incomes below the maximum limit for WIC program participation. Requires the Secretary to make available in each fiscal year, from WIC program funds, an amount sufficient to guarantee a national average per participant grant to be allocated for costs of WIC nutrition services and administration incurred by State and local agencies. Sets forth formulas for adjusting such amount and for determining State allotments. Provides that remaining amounts shall be made available for specified food benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to reduce a State agency's operational level for costs of nutritional services and administration if that level exceeds the grant by more than 15 percent without good cause. Requires State agencies to expend a specified portion of WIC funds for nutrition education. Allows State agencies, under specified conditions, to convert allocations for food benefits to costs of nutrition services and administration. Sets forth provisions relating to WIC program cost containment systems. Requires States to use either competitive bidding, or an equally or more effective system of cost containment, for the procurement of infant formula. Requires the Secretary to inform specified congressional committees of waivers from such requirement. Authorizes the Secretary to establish demonstration programs of WIC clinics at community colleges that offer nursing education programs. Directs the Secretary to evaluate such demonstration programs and report to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992 for such demonstration programs. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to investigate, and report to the appropriate congressional committees on, the use of systems for updating census data to allocate WIC program funds. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants based on need to State agencies to improve and update information and data systems used to carry out WIC programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1995 for such grants. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1990, to review, and report to specified congressional committees on, the relationship between specified nutritional risk criteria and the priority system used under the WIC program. Revises CNA provisions for nutrition education and training. Includes institutions offering summer food service programs under the NSLA under provisions for nutrition education activities. Provides that personnel training shall be consistent with information and materials provided by a food service management institute. Increases and extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for such nutrition education and training programs under the CNA. Directs the Secretary to assess nutrition and education programs under the CNA to determine what nutrition education needs are for children participating under the NSLA in the school lunch, summer food service, and child care food programs. Title II: Paperwork Reduction Amendments - Part A: Reduction of Paperwork Under the National School Lunch Act - Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Lunch Program under the NSLA be permanent agreements that may be amended as necessary, but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Authorizes the Secretary, State, or local food authority to verify data in the application. Authorizes any school food authority to certify any child for free or reduced price lunches, without further application, by directly communicating with the appropriate State or local agency to obtain documentation of the child's membership in a household receiving food stamps or a family receiving AFDC. Provides that the member of the household who executes the application for the school lunch program must furnish only his or her own social security account number; but requires that social security numbers for all adult household members be furnished if verification is sought. Authorizes the Secretary, when appropriate, to request each school food authority in the school lunch program to report monthly to the SEA. Directs the Secretary to permit institutions participating in the child care food program, at the option of the State agency, to reapply for such assistance at two-year intervals. Directs the Secretary to carry out pilot projects in which schools with high percentages of low-income children have the option of using alternative methods of daily meal counting. Requires evaluation after three years of operation. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year on the extent to which paperwork reduction has occurred under the NSLA. Part B: Paperwork Reduction Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Requires SEAs to disburse funds paid to the State under the Special Milk Program to schools in accordance with agreements approved by the Secretary. Requires that such agreements be permanent (amendable as necessary); but does not limit the SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Breakfast Program be permanent agreements (amendable as necessary); but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and interested national medical organizations, to determine when hematological testing of infants is appropriate for purposes of the WIC program. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress within one year concerning such determinations; and (2) issue appropriate regulations. Allows local agencies under the WIC program to use a master file to document and monitor provision of nutrition education services to individuals required to be included by the agency in group nutrition education classes. Authorizes State agencies under the WIC program to provide for delivery of vouchers to any participant not scheduled for nutrition education counseling or recertification interview through means, such as mailing, that do not require a participant to travel to the local agency. Requires State plans to describe mail issuance of vouchers. Prohibits disapproval of the mail issuance of vouchers in specified jurisdictions unless the Secretary finds that it would pose a significant threat to program integrity. Requires each State agency to conduct monitoring reviews of each local agency at least biennially under the WIC program. Requires plans for nutrition education and training to be updated annually. Part C: Advisory Committee on Paperwork Reduction - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to convene an advisory committee on paperwork reduction (and reduction of regulatory requirements) under the NSLA and CNA. Terminates the committee within two years after it is convened. Title III: Technical Amendments - Part A: Amendments to the National School Lunch Act - Makes various technical amendments to the NSLA, including elimination of gender-specific references. Part B: Amendments to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Makes various technical amendments to the CNA, including elimination of gender-specific references.
Child Nutrition and WIC Amendments of 1989 - Title I: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Part A: Programs Under the National School Lunch Act - Amends the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to eliminate certain duplicate provisions. Requires that lunches served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program offer students fluid whole milk and and fluid unflavored lowfat milk. Makes certain private nonprofit organizations eligible to sponsor programs under the Summer Food Service Program for Children under specified conditions, including limitations on numbers of children served and on rural or urban sites. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the Summer Food Service Program for Children. Extends through FY 1995 the general authority for the Commodity Distribution Program (under which the Secretary provides commodities to participating schools for use in the school lunch program). Revises provisions relating to the computation of cash compensation to school districts under the Commodity Distribution Program. Abolishes the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition. Renames the Child Care Food Program and the Adult Care Food Program as the Dependent Care Food Program. Provides limited program monitoring requirements for certain programs that provide outside of school hours care for school children. Provides that eligible organizations under the Child Care Food Program must be reimbursed for expansion into low-income or rural areas. Requires that meals served in adult day care programs, which are reimbursed under the adult day care food program, provide on the average at least one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowance. Requires such adult day care programs to make reasonable efforts to serve meals that meet the special dietary requirements of participants, including efforts to serve foods in forms palatable to them. Authorizes designation of a State agency other than that which administers the child care food program to administer the adult day care food program. Establishes a program of meal supplements for children in after-school care. Directs the Secretary to provide grants-in-aid and other assistance to States for such program in eligible elementary and secondary schools (which operate school lunch programs, sponsor after-school care programs, and participate in the child care food program as of May 15, 1989). Provides for reimbursement for such supplements for children who are not more than 12 years of age (or not more than 15 years of age, in the case of children of migrant workers or children with handicaps). Sets forth administrative provisions relating to payment rates, eligibility for supplements, and content of meal supplements. Extends indefinitely certain pilot projects under which school districts receive cash payments or commodity letters of credit, instead of donated commodities, under the school lunch program, and under which compensation for certain losses is authorized. Directs the Secretary, directly or through contract, to administer such project. Directs the Secretary to review and simplify application forms and instructions for programs under the NSLA and under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA). Authorizes the Secretary to conduct training activities and provide technical assistance to improve specified skills of school food service program employees (in coordination with activities of any food service management institute established by this Act). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1995 for such training and technical assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain a Food Service Management Institute for research, training, technical assistance, and information clearinghouse activities. Authorizes appropriations for such institute for FY 1990 through 1995. Establishes a unified system, to be prescribed and administered by the Secretary, for ensuring that participating local food service authorities comply with school lunch program requirements. Sets forth compliance monitoring duties of the Secretary and State educational agencies under such system, including a duty to minimize imposition of additional duties on local food service authorities. Authorizes appropriations (in addition to certain CNA funds) for such compliance and accountability activities for FY 1990 through 1995. Directs the Secretary to provide to each appropriate State agency specified information on income eligibility of children to receive free or reduced price meals and on consideration of applications where the head of the household is less than 21 years old. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, benefits to eligible persons most in need; (2) reaching eligible persons not participating with program information, eligibility criteria, and application procedures; (3) reaching and enrolling eligible women in the early months of pregnancy and eligible migrants; (4) getting program in consultation with the Surgeon General, to jointly develop and approve, and update as necessary, a publication on dietary guidance for school food service programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) distribute such publication to school food authorities and other organizations participating in programs under the NSLA and CNA; and (2) revise menu planning guides to include recommendations for implementing such guidance. Requires school food authorities and other organizations to apply such dietary guidance in preparing meals and supplements under the school lunch program and the school breakfast program. Part B: Programs Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to reserve specified amounts for FY 1990 and succeeding fiscal years for the Secretary to make additional payments to State educational agencies (SEAs) to assist in initiation of breakfast programs in schools attended by children a significant percentage of whom are members of low-income families. Requires the Secretary to prescribe a formula for determining the amount of such payments based on each State's need for program expansion and other appropriate factors. Limits use of such funds to program start-up costs. Requires SEAs to: (1) give preference to schools demonstrating the greatest need; and (2) ensure that each school receiving such assistance will operate such program for at least three years. Revises provisions for funds for State administrative expenses to limit the amount of such funds which a State may carry over for an additional year. Provides that remaining funds in excess of this carry over limit must be returned to the Secretary for use under school food personnel training and technical assistance provisions of the NSLA. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for such State administrative expenses payments. Sets forth additional activities and requirements with respect to the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Provides that income limits for the WIC program are met by persons who meet income limits for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch program, who receive food stamps or Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or Medicaid, or who are members of a family in which a pregnant woman or an infant receives Medicaid. Provides that military housing allowances shall not be counted as income for purposes of WIC program eligibility. Requires State agencies to provide adult participants in and applicants for the WIC program with information on food stamps, AFDC, and the child support enforcement program. Requires State agencies to provide such participants and applicants also with information on Medicaid, and to refer them to Medicaid if they are not participating in it and appear to have family income below its limits. Requires State agencies to ensure that each local agency under the WIC program maintains and makes available for distribution a list of local resources for substance abuse counseling and treatment. Includes alcohol and drug abuse treatment (as well as counseling) programs among those with which the WIC program is to be coordinated under the State plan. Requires the State WIC plan to include a plan for providing program benefits to unserved infants and children under care of foster parents, protective services, or child welfare authorities, including infants exposed to drugs perinatally. Requires such State WIC plans, if the State agency choose to provide program benefits to some or all eligible individuals who are incarcerated in prisons or juvenile detention facilities, to include a plan for providing them such benefits and meeting their special nutrition education needs. Requires local WIC agencies operating within or in cooperation with a hospital to: (1) advise of the availability of WIC program benefits any potentially eligible individuals who receive inpatient or outpatient prenatal, maternity, or postpartum services, or accompany a child under age five receiving well-child services; and (2) provide an opportunity within the hospital for certification for WIC participation. Requires State agencies to notify participants, giving relevant categories, before suspending or terminating WIC benefits due to a shortage of funds. Allows State agencies to adopt methods of delivering benefits to accommodate the special needs and problems of individuals who are incarcerated in prisons or juvenile detention facilities. Allows State agencies to implement WIC income eligibility guidelines at the time the State implements such guidelines for Medicaid, as long as this is not later than July 1 of each year. Requires local WIC agencies to provide information on other potential sources of food assistance in the local area to individuals who apply in person but cannot be served because the local WIC program is operating at capacity. Requires State agencies to require local WIC agencies to: (1) attempt to contact pregnant women to reschedule missed application appointments; and (2) if such agencies do not routinely do so, schedule application or recertification appointments to minimize the time of employed individuals' absence from their workplace. Directs the Secretary to establish minimum standards for the locations and times at which WIC program services shall be available. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the WIC program. Sets forth provisions for availability and allocation of such funds. Increases the amount which may be reserved for studies, evaluation, and pilot projects. Reserves specified amounts in each fiscal year for the Secretary to make grants to State agencies, on a competitive basis, for projects to improve WIC program operation. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study, and a report to specified congressional committees, on WIC program access problems of low-income working or rural family members. Directs the Secretary, on completion of the 1990 decennial census and in coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to make available an estimate, by State and county, of the number of women, infants, and children who are members of families with incomes below the maximum limit for WIC program participation. Requires the Secretary to make available in each fiscal year, from WIC program funds, an amount sufficient to guarantee a national average per participant grant to be allocated for costs of WIC nutrition services and administration incurred by State and local agencies. Sets forth formulas for adjusting such amount and for determining State allotments. Provides that remaining amounts shall be made available for specified food benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to reduce a State agency's operational level for costs of nutritional services and administration if that level exceeds the grant by more than 15 percent without good cause. Requires State agencies to expend a specified portion of WIC funds for nutrition education. Allows State agencies, under specified conditions, to convert allocations for food benefits to costs of nutrition services and administration. Sets forth provisions relating to WIC program cost containment systems. Requires States to use either competitive bidding, or an equally or more effective system of cost containment, for the procurement of infant formula. Requires the Secretary to inform specified congressional committees of waivers from such requirement. Authorizes the Secretary to establish demonstration programs of WIC clinics at community colleges that offer nursing education programs. Directs the Secretary to evaluate such demonstration programs and report to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992 for such demonstration programs. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to investigate, and report to the appropriate congressional committees on, the use of systems for updating census data to allocate WIC program funds. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants based on need to State agencies to improve and update information and data systems used to carry out WIC programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1995 for such grants. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1990, to review, and report to specified congressional committees on, the relationship between specified nutritional risk criteria and the priority system used under the WIC program. Revises CNA provisions for nutrition education and training. Includes institutions offering summer food service programs under the NSLA under provisions for nutrition education activities. Provides that personnel training shall be consistent with information and materials provided by a food service management institute. Increases and extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for such nutrition education and training programs under the CNA. Directs the Secretary to assess nutrition and education programs under the CNA to determine what nutrition education needs are for children participating under the NSLA in the school lunch, summer food service, and child care food programs. Title II: Paperwork Reduction Amendments - Part A: Reduction of Paperwork Under the National School Lunch Act - Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Lunch Program under the NSLA be permanent agreements that may be amended as necessary, but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Authorizes the Secretary, State, or local food authority to verify data in the application. Authorizes any school food authority to certify any child for free or reduced price lunches, without further application, by directly communicating with the appropriate State or local agency to obtain documentation of the child's membership in a household receiving food stamps or a family receiving AFDC. Provides that the member of the household who executes the application for the school lunch program must furnish only his or her own social security account number; but requires that social security numbers for all adult household members be furnished if verification is sought. Authorizes the Secretary, when appropriate, to request each school food authority in the school lunch program to report monthly to the SEA. Directs the Secretary to permit institutions participating in the child care food program, at the option of the State agency, to reapply for such assistance at two-year intervals. Directs the Secretary to carry out pilot projects in which schools with high percentages of low-income children have the option of using alternative methods of daily meal counting. Requires evaluation after three years of operation. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year on the extent to which paperwork reduction has occurred under the NSLA. Part B: Paperwork Reduction Under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Requires SEAs to disburse funds paid to the State under the Special Milk Program to schools in accordance with agreements approved by the Secretary. Requires that such agreements be permanent (amendable as necessary) but does not limit the SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary). Requires that State-local agreements for carrying out the School Breakfast Program be permanent agreements (amendable as necessary); but does not limit an SEA's ability to suspend or terminate any such agreement in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and interested national medical organizations, to determine when hematological testing of infants is appropriate for purposes of the WIC program. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress within one year concerning such determinations; and (2) issue appropriate regulations. Allows local agencies under the WIC program to use a master file to document and monitor provision of nutrition education services to individuals required to be included by the agency in group nutrition education classes. Authorizes State agencies under the WIC program to provide for delivery of vouchers to any participant not scheduled for nutrition education counseling or recertification interview through means, such as mailing, that do not require a participant to travel to the local agency. Requires State plans to describe mail issuance of vouchers. Prohibits disapproval of the mail issuance of vouchers in specified jurisdictions unless the Secretary finds that it would pose a significant threat to program integrity. Requires each State agency to conduct monitoring reviews of each local agency at least biennially under the WIC program. Requires plans for nutrition education and training to be updated annually. Part C: Advisory Committee on Paperwork Reduction - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to convene an advisory committee on paperwork reduction (and reduction of regulatory requirements) under the NSLA and CNA. Terminates the committee within two years after it is convened. Title III: Technical Amendments - Part A: Amendments to the National School Lunch Act - Makes various technical amendments to the NSLA, including elimination of gender-specific references. Part B: Amendments to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 - Makes various technical amendments to the CNA, including elimination of gender-specific references.
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for, and other provisions relating to: (1) State administrative expenses; (2) the special supplemental food program; and (3) nutrition education and training. Amends the National School Lunch Act to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for, and other provisions relating to: (1) the summer food service program for children; and (2) the commodity distribution program.
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Timeline
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 101-147.
Became Public Law No: 101-147.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment by Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment by Voice Vote.
Message on House action received in Senate and held at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment.
Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment Agreed to without objection.
On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment Agreed to without objection.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment pursuant to H. Res. 260.
House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment pursuant to H. Res. 260.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1484.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Mr. Hawkins moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Mr. Goodling demanded a second on the motion to suspend the rules.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
On ordering a second Agreed to without objection.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 24.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 101-194.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 101-194.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 128.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Favorable Executive Comment Received from USDA.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
House Votes
Amendments
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