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PUBLIC LAW 90-302-MAY 8, 1968

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Public Law 90-302 AN ACT To amend the National School Lunch Act to strengthen and expand food service programs for children, and for other purposes.

May 8, 1968 [H.R. 15398]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the National United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 Lunch Act, School of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1752) is amended by amendment. striking out "section 1 1 " and inserting in lieu thereof "sections 11 76 Stat. 944. and 13-'. Appropriations shall be considered Health, Education, and Welfare functions for budget purposes rather than functions of Agriculture. SEC. 2. (a) Section 6 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1755) is amended by inserting "except section 13" immediately after 60 Stat. 2 3 1. "Act," where it first appears. (b) Section 9 of such Act is amended by inserting before the period 42 USC 1758. at the end of the first sentence the following: "; except that such minimum nutritional requirements shall not be construed to prohibit the substitution of foods to accommodate the medical or other special dietary needs of individual students". 42 SEC. 3. The National School Lunch Act is amended by adding at note. u s e 1751 the end of the Act the following new section: "SPECIAL FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN

"SEC. 13. (a)(1) There is authorized to be appropriated $32,000,000 for each of the three fiscal years ending June 30, 1969, June 30, 1970, and June 30, 1971, to enable the Secretary to formulate and carry out a pilot program to assist States through grants-in-aid and other means, to initiate, maintain, or expand nonprofit food service programs for children in service institutions. For purposes of this section, the term 'service institutions' means private, nonprofit institutions or public institutions, such as child day-care centers, settlement houses, or recreation centers, which provide day care, or other child care where children are not maintained in residence, for children from areas in which poor economic conditions exist and from areas in which there are high concentrations of working mothers, and includes public and private nonprofit institutions providing day care services for handicapped children. "(2) Subject to all the provisions of this section, the term 'service institutions' also includes public or private nonprofit institutions that develop special summer programs providing food service similar to that available to children under the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Programs during the school year, including such institutions providing day care services for handicapped children. " (b)(1) Of the funds appropriated for the purposes of this section for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve 2 per centum for apportionment to Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall each be paid an amount which bears the same ratio to the total of such reserved funds as the number of children aged three to seventeen, inclusive, in each bears to the total number of children of such ages in all of them. " (2) From the remainder of the funds appropriated for any fiscal 3^ear, the Secretary shall pay to each State such sums as he deems ap-

" Service insstitions."

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