S 1549
108th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Income
School lunch program
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in an increase in the income eligibility guidelines for free lunches and breakfasts.
Introduced: July 31, 2003
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 12, 2004
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2669)
Jul 31, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jul 31, 2003
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in increases in income eligibility for free lunches and breakfasts by specified increments from 130 percent of the Office of Management and Budget nonfarm income poverty guidelines for July 1, 2003, to 185 percent of such guidelines for July 1, 2008, and every subsequent school year.
What's happening now
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2669)
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