RICHARD B. RUSSELL NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT
To provide assistance to the States in the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of school lunch programs,and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [42 U.S.C. 1751]note That this Act may be cited as the ‘‘Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act’’.
SEC. 2. [42 U.S.C. 1751] It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of foods and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs.
