{ "id": "R41354", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "R41354", "active": true, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 446000, "date": "2012-02-06", "retrieved": "2016-04-06T21:53:29.023587", "title": "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization: P.L. 111-296", "summary": "The most recent WIC and child nutrition reauthorization, P.L. 111-296, \u201cHealthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010,\u201d was signed into law at the end of the 111th Congress on December 13, 2010. Subsequently, Congress plays an oversight role as the U.S. Department of Agriculture promulgates rules, releases guidance, and otherwise implements the legislation. This report features a summary of the legislative history of P.L. 111-296 as well as a section-by-section summary of what was contained within the law. For a brief overview of this periodic reauthorization, see CRS In Focus IF10266, An Introduction to Child Nutrition Reauthorization, by Randy Alison Aussenberg.\nA comprehensive congressional review (\u201creauthorization\u201d) of the primary laws governing child nutrition and WIC programs (the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act) had been scheduled for 2009 (the last reauthorization was in 2004). Congress did not meet the September 30, 2009, deadline for comprehensive reauthorization. Instead, a one-year extension (through September 30, 2010) was included in the FY2010 Agriculture Department appropriations measure to give Congress time to consider a full reauthorization bill. The delay in child nutrition/WIC reauthorization was primarily due to a lack of agreement on how to fund any new child nutrition initiatives subject to congressional \u201cpay-go\u201d rules. The Administration had proposed spending $10 billion over the next 10 years on expanding child nutrition efforts to \u201cend childhood hunger by 2015,\u201d but did not offer specific policy changes or spending/revenue offsets. In 2010, Congress moved to begin the process of enacting the most sweeping changes in child nutrition and WIC programs since the 1970s.\nIn May 2010, the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee reported the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (S. 3307; S.Rept. 111-178). It legislated substantial changes in the child nutrition and WIC programs (most importantly, increasing federal financing for school lunches) that were estimated to cost just about $4.5 billion over 10 years. It also included spending reductions in other programs that offset this cost. Most significantly, it (1) reduced payments under the Agriculture Department\u2019s Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) and (2) included a restructuring of, and long-term cut in spending for, the nutrition education component of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp program). On August 5, 2010, the Senate approved an amended version of S. 3307. It differed from the committee-reported version of the bill in that it replaced savings from the EQIP offset with spending reductions achieved by reducing future benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp program) and dropped authority for the Agriculture Department to bar certain foods from the WIC program.\nIn July 2010, the House Education and Labor Committee approved the Improving Nutrition for America\u2019s Children Act (H.R. 5504, as extensively amended in committee). This bill included provisions that were much the same as the Senate initiative, but the anticipated cost (more than $7 billion over 10 years) would have been substantially larger because of provisions expanding child nutrition efforts well beyond those in the Senate\u2019s bill and only relatively minimal offsets. \nAfter lengthy internal debates over the cost of any child nutrition/WIC reauthorization initiative and how to pay for it, the House approved the Senate\u2019s bill on December 2, 2010, and the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was enacted on December 13, 2010 (P.L. 111-296).", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R41354", "sha1": "afe39cd88b577c10c6d38a927565ae18fb8d8532", "filename": "files/20120206_R41354_afe39cd88b577c10c6d38a927565ae18fb8d8532.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R41354", "sha1": "3f1bc3e8c9d4ad0fa661c0b73b6ab82ad1c74578", "filename": "files/20120206_R41354_3f1bc3e8c9d4ad0fa661c0b73b6ab82ad1c74578.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2651, "name": "Child Well-Being" }, { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4326, "name": "Benefits and Services for Low-Income Households" } ] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc813116/", "id": "R41354_2010Oct12", "date": "2010-10-12", "retrieved": "2016-03-19T13:57:26", "title": "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization: Issues and Legislation in the 111th Congress", "summary": null, "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20101012_R41354_809b9c9dcd27fbead5716f21692b560e09908901.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20101012_R41354_809b9c9dcd27fbead5716f21692b560e09908901.html" } ], "topics": [] } ], "topics": [ "Agricultural Policy", "Appropriations", "Domestic Social Policy", "Health Policy" ] }