3.0.0 1020 2023-01-15T15:48:21Z 2023-01-15T15:48:21Z Senate S S 2003-05-07 108 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-05-07T22:29:20Z 2003-05-07 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2003-05-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000305 Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] HERBERT KOHL D WI H. N S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2003-06-19 False S000709 Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] ARLEN SPECTER R PA 2003-07-29 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2004-03-02 False Agriculture and Food Child nutrition Congress Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Families Federal aid to education Indexing (Economic policy) Price indexes School lunch program Secondary education Social Welfare Agriculture and Food 00 2003-05-07 Introduced in Senate 2003-07-23T16:32:47Z School Breakfast Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NLSA) to revise requirements for the school breakfast program.

Revises severe need assistance under CNA to provide that eligible schools are entitled to receive a specified meal reimbursement rate (eliminating an alternative lesser payment of the operating costs of the breakfast program).

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, under CNA, to make competitive startup and expansion grants to State educational agencies to assist eligible schools in initiating and expanding school breakfast programs.

Provides for commodity assistance for the school breakfast program (in addition to current provisions for commodity assistance for the school lunch program under NLSA).

Directs the Secretary, under NLSA, to make grants to State agencies for pilot projects to provide free breakfasts to high school students, without regard to family income. Requires the Secretary to approve for project participation high schools under the jurisdiction of up to six nominated school food authorities selected so as to: (1) target projects toward such authorities that have the highest percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast program and the lowest percentage of students that receive such meals; and (2) equitably distribute projects among urban and rural high schools.

]]> School Breakfast Improvement Act of 2003 Display Title School Breakfast Improvement Act of 2003 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the school breakfast program. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced School Breakfast Improvement Act of 2003 Introduced in Senate 2003-05-07T04:00:00Z 2003-05-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.