[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 428 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 428

     To require the Secretary of Agriculture to report on the cost 
 differences between providing school meals and supplements in each of 
the territories of the United States and the 50 States and the District 
                  of Columbia, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2013

  Mr. Sablan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require the Secretary of Agriculture to report on the cost 
 differences between providing school meals and supplements in each of 
the territories of the United States and the 50 States and the District 
                  of Columbia, 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 ``School Meals Reimbursement Rates 
Comparison Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. REPORT.

    Not later than April 1, 2014, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
prepare and submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry of the Senate a report on--
            (1) the cost differences between--
                    (A) providing meals and supplements under the 
                Richard B. Russell National School Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 
                et seq.) and section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 
                1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) in Guam, American Samoa, Puerto 
                Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the 
                Northern Mariana Islands, respectively; and
                    (B) the average cost of providing meals and 
                supplements under such provisions of law in the 50 
                States and the District of Columbia; and
            (2) the relation of the cost differences determined under 
        paragraph (1) to the national average payment rates for meals 
        and supplements prescribed under sections 4, 11, 13, and 17 of 
        the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1753, 1759a, 1761, 1766) and section 4(b) of the Child 
        Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773(b)).
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