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    Child Nutrition Reauthorization Scorecard – 3.25.

    2010

    This week, Child Nutrition Reauthorization took two steps forward in the Senate and House!

    • The Senate Agriculture Committee (including Texas Senator John Cornyn)


    unanimously passed a reauthorization bill, the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.”
    This bill will now be taken up and improved on the Senate floor.

    • Staffers for House Education & Labor Committee Chairman George Miller confirmed
    that he will try to pass a House reauthorization bill out of committee by the Memorial Day
    recess (5/28).

    So what does the Senate bill currently include? And how much progress will it make on the
    Texas Food Bank Network’s priorities for hungry kids?

    Priority Progress Specific Measures


    Overall Funding
    • Calls for $4.5B in new funding over the next ten years
    • TFBN urges Congress to meet the President’s request
    of $10B over ten years

    School Breakfast
    • No significant new measures
    • TFBN urges Congress to include funding to encourage
    universal, in-class breakfast programs (H.R. 4325)

    School Lunch • Creates pilots to explore universal free lunch using:


    o “Community Eligibility” to eliminate paperwork
    for universal programs
    o Census data to estimate eligibility
    • TFBN urges Congress to create a pilot program that
    eliminates the reduced-price lunch category, making lunch
    free up to 185% of the poverty line (H.R. 3705)
    After-School Meals • Brings higher CACFP supper reimbursement to all fifty
    states, including Texas
    • TFBN urges Congress to reduce the paperwork for
    programs that provide meals year-round, by bringing
    California’s seamless SFSP/CACFP pilot nationwide
    (H.R. 4274)

    To improve progress on these priorities, call Senator John Cornyn’s office at 202-224-2934
    & share this update with your federal House Representatives!

    Questions? Contact JC Dwyer at 817-721-9352 or jcdwyer@endhungerintex.org

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