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      "title": "Child Nutrition and WIC Legislation in the 108th and 109th Congresses",
      "summary": "Child nutrition programs (e.g., school meal programs, summer food service, child care food\nprograms) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (the\nWIC Program) are subject to periodic comprehensive reviews, when appropriations and other\nauthorities expire and have to be reauthorized. They were up for reauthorization review in the 108th\nCongress, and the only substantial child nutrition-WIC legislation in the 108th Congress, and so far\nin the 109th Congress, has been the 2004 reauthorization law -- the Child Nutrition and WIC\nReauthorization Act of 2004,  P.L. 108-265 , enacted June 30, 2004.\n The 2004 law extended virtually all expiring authorities through FY2009 and contained\nimportant, but incremental, changes in child nutrition programs and the WIC program; the\nCongressional Budget Office estimated that it will generate net new spending totaling about $230\nmillion through FY2009. Its major feature was a set of amendments aimed at improving the integrity\nand administration of the school meal programs. Significant changes were made in procedures\nrelating to the way children's eligibility for free and reduced-price school meals is certified and\nverified, and new initiatives to upgrade schools' administration of their meal programs were put in\nplace. However, minimal revisions were made to the school meal programs themselves -- for\nexample, expansion of eligibility for homeless, runaway, and migrant children, loosened rules for\ncertain higher school breakfast subsidies -- and a major proposal to phase in higher income eligibility\nlimits for free school meals was limited to an  authorization  for a pilot project. \nRelatively minor\namendments also affected the Summer Food Service and Child and Adult Care Food programs --\nfor example, making permanent and expanding coverage of \"Lugar\" rules facilitating participation\nby summer program sponsors and making permanent and nationally applicable a rule loosening\nChild and Adult Care Food program eligibility rules for for-profit child care centers. \n Another area of concern addressed by the reauthorization law was nutrition, health, and\nnutrition education. Here, the biggest initiative was a requirement that all schools participating in\nschool meal programs establish locally designed \"wellness policies\" to set nutrition, physical activity,\nand other goals and strategies for meeting them. Coupled with it were (1)  authorizations \nfor new\nnutrition education efforts, (2) an expansion of the program offering free fresh fruit and vegetables\nin selected schools, and (3) significant changes in food safety rules.\n Finally, a large number of revisions were made to the law governing the WIC program. The\nmost important among them were amendments aimed at strengthening rules that help contain food\ncosts incurred by the program; these included provisions placing substantial limits on vendors\nreceiving the majority of their revenue from WIC vouchers (so-called \"WIC-only\" stores).\n This report will be updated as events and legislation warrant.",
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