§1769b — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must give the Department of Defense the same federal money and food for school lunches at DoD dependent schools outside the United States, its territories, or possessions as are given to U.S. schools in the National School Lunch Program. The Secretary of Defense must run those lunch programs and use the Agriculture Department’s rules for who gets free or reduced-price meals, but may set the exact way family income is calculated. Meals must meet the nutrition rules set by the Secretary of Agriculture, but the Secretary of Defense may allow changes to meal patterns, milk rules, or nondairy drink rules when local conditions make strict compliance impractical. Money may be appropriated to cover DoD administrative costs, and the Secretary of Agriculture must give technical help to the Secretary of Defense.

Title 42, §1769b

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(a)For the purpose of obtaining Federal payments and commodities in conjunction with the provision of lunches to students attending Department of Defense dependents’ schools which are located outside the United States, its territories or possessions, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make available to the Department of Defense, from funds appropriated for such purpose, the same payments and commodities as are provided to States for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program in the United States.

(b)The Secretary of Defense shall administer lunch programs authorized by this section and shall determine eligibility for free and reduced price lunches under the criteria published by the Secretary of Agriculture, except that the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations governing computation of income eligibility standards for families of students participating in the National School Lunch Program under this section.

(c)The Secretary of Defense shall be required to offer meals meeting nutritional standards prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture; however, the Secretary of Defense may authorize deviations from Department of Agriculture prescribed meal patterns, fluid milk requirements, and nutritional standards for nondairy beverages when local conditions preclude strict compliance or when such compliance is impracticable.

(d)Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for any fiscal year in such amounts as may be necessary for the administrative expenses of the Department of Defense under this section.

(e)The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide the Secretary of Defense with the technical assistance in the administration of the school lunch programs authorized by this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 99–591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 20 of act

June 4, 1946, was renumbered section 18 of act

June 4, 1946, and is classified to section 1769 of this title.

Amendments

2026—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 119–69 substituted “patterns, fluid milk requirements, and nutritional standards for nondairy beverages” for “patterns and fluid milk requirements”. 1989—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101–147 substituted “reduced price” for “reduced-price”. 1986—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99–500 and Pub. L. 99–591, § 328(a), and Pub. L. 99–661, § 4208(a), amended subsec. (d) identically, striking out “and for payment of the difference between the value of commodities and payments received from the Secretary of Agriculture and (1) the full cost of each lunch for each student eligible for a free lunch, and (2) the full cost of each lunch, less any amounts required by law or regulation to be paid by each student eligible for a reduced-price lunch” after “this section”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1978 and no provision herein to be construed as impairing or preventing the taking effect of any other Act providing for the

Transfer of Functions

described herein to an executive department having responsibility for education, see section 1415 of Pub. L. 95–561, set out as a note under section 921 of Title 20, Education.

§1769b Department of Defense overseas dependents’ schools