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 95 STAT. 526

42 USC 1758 "°^42 USC 1758.

PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981 current status of household members who are recipients of public assistance, unemployment insurance documents, and written statements from employers, as a condition for receipt of free or reducedprice meals. (d) For the school year ending June 30, 1982, the Secretary may prescribe procedures for implementing the revisions made by the amendments contained in this section to the income eligibility guidelines for free and reduced-price lunches under section 9 of the National School Lunch Act. Such procedures may allow school food authorities to (1) use applications distributed at the beginning of the school year when making eligibility determinations based on the revised income eligibility guidelines, or (2) distribute new applications and make determinations using such applications. REVISION OF STATE REVENUE MATCHING REQUIREMENTS

42 USC 1756. 42 USC 1753.

SEC. 804. Section 7 of the National School Lunch Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 7. (a)(1) Funds appropriated to carry out section 4 of this Act during any fiscal year shall be available for payment to the States for disbursement by State educational agencies in accordance with such agreements, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as may be entered into by the Secretary and such State educational agencies for the purpose of assisting schools within the States in obtaining agricultural commodities and other foods for consumption by children in furtherance of the school lunch program authorized under this Act. For any school year, such payments shall be made to a State only if, during such school year, the amount of the State revenues (excluding State revenues derived from the operation of the program) appropriated or used specifically for program purposes (other than any State revenues expended for salaries and administrative expenses of the program at the State level) is not less than 30 percent of the funds made avsiilable to such State under section 4 of this Act for the school year beginning July 1, 1980. "(2) If, for any school year, the per capita income of a State is less than the average per capita income of all the States, the amount required to be expended by a State under paragraph (1) for such year shall be an amount bearing the same ratio to the amount equal to 30 percent of the funds made available to such State under section 4 of this Act for the the school year beginning July 1, 1980, as the per capita income of such State bears to the average per capita income of all the States. "(b) The State revenues provided by any State to meet the requirement of subsection (a) shall, to the extent the State deems practicable, be disbursed to schools participating in the school lunch program under this Act. No State in which the State educational agency is prohibited by law from disbursing State appropriated funds to private schools shall be required to match Federal funds made available for meals served in such schools, or to disburse, to such schools, any of the State revenues required to meet the requirements of subsection (a). "(c) The Secretary shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, the amounts to be paid to any State under this section and shall specify when such payments are to be made. The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Secretary, the amounts so certified.".

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