[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 22 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 22

  To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to make available certain 
amounts of funding for the special supplemental food program for women, 
          infants, and children (WIC), and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Leahy (for himself and Mr. DeConcini) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to make available certain 
amounts of funding for the special supplemental food program for women, 
          infants, and children (WIC), and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Maternal and Child Investments Act 
of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING.

    Section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786) is 
amended--
            (1) in the second sentence of subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``authorized'' and inserting 
                ``established''; and
                    (B) by striking ``authorization'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the first sentence of paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``may'' and inserting ``shall''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``appropriated'' 
                and inserting ``made available'';
            (3) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by designating the first and second 
                        sentences as subparagraphs (A) and (C), 
                        respectively;
                            (ii) by striking subparagraph (A) (as so 
                        designated) and inserting the following new 
                        subparagraphs:
    ``(A) Out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall provide to the Secretary to carry 
out this section $3,280,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, $3,690,000,000 
for fiscal year 1995, and $4,100,000,000 for fiscal year 1996.
    ``(B) The Secretary shall allocate funds to State agencies as 
provided in this section. Each State agency shall be entitled to 
receive the full amount of funds authorized to be allocated to the 
agency under this section.'';
                            (iii) in subparagraph (C) (as so 
                        designated)--
                                    (I) by striking ``appropriations'' 
                                and inserting ``funds made available''; 
                                and
                                    (II) by striking ``for the purposes 
                                for which appropriated''; and
                            (iv) by adding at the end the following new 
                        subparagraph:
    ``(D)(i) Not later than October 1, 1993, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall establish in the Treasury of the United States a reserve 
account consisting of the sums appropriated to the account by clause 
(ii). Sums in the account shall remain available until expended. When 
all sums in the account have been expended, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall close the account.
    ``(ii) Out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall provide to the 
reserve account established pursuant to clause (i) $120,000,000 on 
October 1, 1993.
    ``(iii) Upon request by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall pay to the Secretary of Agriculture, from sums in 
the reserve account, such amounts as the Secretary of Agriculture 
determines are necessary to prevent reductions in nutrition services to 
participants in the program established by this section because of a 
significant or unanticipated increase in the cost of supplemental 
foods.
    ``(iv) Not later than 30 days after making a request pursuant to 
clause (ii), the Secretary shall notify Congress of the amounts 
requested and the reasons for the request.'';
                    (B) in the first sentence of paragraph (4), by 
                striking ``appropriated'' and inserting ``made 
                available''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (5), by striking ``appropriated'' 
                and inserting ``made available'';
            (4) in subsection (h)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
                ``appropriated'' both places it appears and inserting 
                ``made available''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
                ``appropriated'' both places it appears and inserting 
                ``made available''; and
            (5) in subsection (l), by striking ``funds appropriated'' 
        and inserting ``funds made available''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall become effective on October 
1, 1993.

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