[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1499 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1499

  To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to expand 
  eligibility for free school meals to certain families in areas with 
                     greater than fair market rent.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 22, 2009

Mrs. Gillibrand 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 Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to expand 
  eligibility for free school meals to certain families in areas with 
                     greater than fair market rent.

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

SECTION 1. EXPANDED ELIGIBILITY IN AREAS WITH ABOVE AVERAGE FAIR MARKET 
              RENT.

    Section 9(b)(1)(A) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(b)(1)(A)) is amended in the second sentence by 
inserting after ``130 percent'' the following: ``(or, in the case of 
families in a metropolitan area or nonmetropolitan county with greater 
than fair market rent, as determined by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development using the most recent data available, 185 percent)''.
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