US Congress House Bill 3316 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-6)
Status: Introduced on July 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-11-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

School Food Modernization Act This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue loan guarantees to local educational agencies (LEAs), school food authorities, and other eligible entities to finance infrastructure improvements or equipment purchases to facilitate their provision of healthy meals through the school lunch program. USDA must give preference to applicants that demonstrate a substantial or disproportionate need for food service infrastructure or durable equipment, and shall establish fees for the loan guarantee program that are sufficient to cover the federal government's administrative costs in operating the program. USDA must also award competitive matching grants to assist LEAs, school food authorities, and other eligible entities in purchasing the durable equipment and infrastructure they need to serve healthier meals and improve food safety. In doing so, USDA must give grant priority to applicants that: (1) have identified and are reasonably expected to meet an unmet local or community need, and (2) are located in states that have enacted funding measures to assist them with such purchases. In addition, USDA must award competitive matching grants to experienced third-party training institutions to provide school food service personnel with the training and technical assistance they need to: (1) meet school lunch program nutrition standards, and (2) improve the efficacy and efficiency of the school lunch and breakfast programs. The bill authorizes these grant and loan programs through FY2021 and, as an offset, rescinds $35 million of the Department of Education's unobligated balance available for administrative expenses. USDA must complete a study on the use of state administrative expense funds.

School Food Modernization Act

Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL]
Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]
Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]
Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]	Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]
Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]
Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]
Rep. Joaquin Castro [D-TX]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-11-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2015-07-29	House	Referred to House Appropriations
2015-07-29	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2015-07-29	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2015-07-29	House	Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-07-29	House	Introduced in House

SB540 (Related) 2015-02-24 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1077)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3316/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr3316/BILLS-114hr3316ih.pdf