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This section requires school food authorities to purchase domestic commodities or products for the school lunch program (including snacks), school breakfast program, summer food service program, child and adult care food program, and special milk program. It defines domestic commodities or products as US-produced agricultural commodities, substantially US-processed foods containing them, or fish and seafood harvested in the US Exclusive Economic Zone or by US-flagged vessels. It mandates a waiver from the Secretary to purchase foreign commodities or products, limited to 5 percent of a school food authority’s total annual commercial food costs per food component, requires annual parental notification of foreign purchases, and directs the Secretary to maintain a public online list of granted waivers with annual reporting to state agencies and the Secretary.
This section requires contracts between school food authorities and suppliers for commodities or food products under the National School Lunch Act or Child Nutrition Act to include a provision mandating compliance with Buy American requirements. Noncompliant suppliers must reimburse the Secretary for federal funds spent on foreign products, with those funds available without further appropriation to carry out related program activities. School food authorities may use noncompliant foreign products without a waiver. School food authorities must report noncompliance annually to state educational agencies, which must compile and submit reports to the Secretary for public posting on the USDA website.
This section increases funding for the Buy American procurement training program to $5,000,000 (from $1,000,000) and extends the authorization through 2031 (from 2015).
This section standardizes the term "reduced price" without a hyphen in eligibility and payment provisions of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. It also corrects the spelling of "consultation," adjusts cross-references, and fixes punctuation in that Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.