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 103 STAT. 884 PUBLIC LAW 101-147—NOV. 10, 1989 State and local governments. Day Care. State and local governments. Day Care. projects, the Secretary may provide grants to, or otherwise modify administrative reimbursement rates for, family or group day care home sponsoring organizations. "(3) The Secretary and the States shall provide training and technical assistance to assist family and group day care home sponsoring organizations in reaching low-income children."; (3) in subsection (p)— (A) by adding at the end of paragraph (1) the following: "Lunches served by each such institution for which re- imbursement is claimed under this section shall provide, on the average, approximately Vs of the daily recommended dietary allowance established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Such institutions shall make resison- able efforts to serve meals that meet the special dietary requirements of participants, including efforts to serve foods in forms palatable to participants."; and (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(6) The Governor of any State may designate to administer the program under this subsection a State agency other than the agency that administers the child care food program under this section.; and (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(q)(l) From amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for purposes of carrying out this section, the Secretary shall carry out 2 statewide demonstration projects under which private for- profit organizations providing nonresidential day care services shall qualify as institutions for the purposes of this section. An organiza- tion may participate in a demonstration project described in the preceding sentence if— "(A) at least 25 percent of the children served by such organization meet the income eligibility criteria established under section 9(b) for free or reduced price meals; and "(B) as a result of the participation of the organization in the project— "(i) the nutritional content or quality of meals and snacks served to children under the care of such organization will be improved; or "(ii) fees charged by such organization for the care of the children described in subparagraph (A) will be lowered. "(2) Under each such project, the Secretary shall examine— "(A) the budgetary impact of the change in eligibility being tested; "(B) the extent to which, sis a result of such change, additional low-income children can be reached; and "(C) which outreach methods are most effective. "(3) The Secretary shall choose to conduct demonstration projects under this subsection— "(A) 1 State that— "(i) has a history of participation of for-profit organiza- tions in the child care food program; "(ii) allocates a significant proportion of the amounts it receives for child care under title XX of the Social Security Act in a manner that allows low-income parents to choose the t3npe of child care their children will receive; "(iii) has other funding mechanisms that support paren- tal choice for child care;

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