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<title>School Nutrition Flexibility Act</title>
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<action-date>2013-03-20</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>School Nutrition Flexibility Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from promulgating rules and regulations applicable to the school lunch and breakfast programs that establish a maximum quantity of grains, meat, or meat alternates that may be served in any meal or during any period of time of any school year.</p> <p>Makes the formula that school food authorities are required to use to establish the price for a paid lunch (a lunch provided to children who are not eligible for free or reduced price meals) applicable only to school food authorities that had a negative balance in their nonprofit school food service account for the previous school year.</p>]]></summary-text>
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