Title 42 › CHAPTER 13 — SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS › § 1769b–1
Requires the Secretary to run training and give technical help so people who work in federally assisted feeding programs can do a better job. The help must cover food service programs under this law, school breakfast programs, and other federal feeding programs when needed. The Secretary must use model local programs in each State when possible. The Secretary must give competitive grants to State agencies so schools and school food authorities with at least 50 percent of students certified for free or reduced price meals (and others if money remains) can buy or upgrade technology and information systems if they send an infrastructure plan that shows cost savings and better program integrity, prevents any overt identification of children (no special tokens, tickets, or published name lists), lets the State process and verify free and reduced price meal applications, links menu planning/production/serving data to monitor compliance with section 1758(f)(1), and works with statewide reporting systems. The Secretary also must give competitive help to States with low school breakfast participation and high need to start or expand breakfast programs. The Secretary may provide money to the University of Mississippi, with the University of Southern Mississippi, to set up and run a food service management institute. The training and help must include menu planning, putting rules and guidelines into practice, and meeting program requirements and accountability. The institute must do research and provide training in areas like efficient use of resources, financial management, computer use, procurement, sanitation, safety (including HACCP, emergency readiness, food recalls, and biosecurity), meal planning and nutrition, and culinary skills. It must build a national network of trainers, make training materials, act as a clearinghouse for research, train staff to follow the Secretary’s nutrition guidance, create informational materials, and help State agencies with extra nutrition and health instruction. The Secretary must coordinate these activities with the institute and use the institute for dietary and nutrition work. Funding rules include a Treasury transfer of $5,000,000 on October 1, 2010 and each October 1 thereafter to carry out the institute work; additional appropriations were authorized for fiscal year 1995 and each later year as needed; and the Secretary may provide extra discretionary grants for education, training, or applied research. For federal administrative support, Treasury was directed to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of Agriculture on set dates (Oct. 1, 2004 and 2005: $3,000,000; Oct. 1, 2006–2009: $2,000,000 each year; Oct. 1, 2010 and every Oct. 1 thereafter: $4,000,000) to fund training, technical assistance, and reviews to improve program integrity and administrative accuracy.
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42 U.S.C. § 1769b–1
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
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Sep 22, 2026
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