US Congress Senate Bill 1966 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on August 5 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-08-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Hunger Free Summer for Kids Act of 2015 This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish electronic benefit (EBT) cards and off-site consumption as two alternative delivery options for schools and service institutions in the summer food service program for children. These options shall be available to a child only if the child lives either in a rural area or outside of an area in which poor economic conditions exist, or, in the case of off-site consumption, if the summer program is available to the child at a congregate feeding site but the site is inaccessible, as specified by the bill. A state may not operate the EBT card option and the off-site consumption option simultaneously in the same area. Each state desiring to participate in the summer food service program shall include in its annual management and administration plan the state's plans for using one or both of these alternative delivery options.

Hunger Free Summer for Kids Act of 2015

Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY]	Sen. Mark Kirk [R-IL]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]
Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-08-05	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1966/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1966/BILLS-114s1966is.pdf