Child Nutrition
Congress completed legislation for
the long-term, five year package of programs that include school
lunch program, child
and adult care food program, and WIC (Women, Infants and Children).
- The Senate Committee
prepared reauthorization
of the Child Nutrition Act which the Senate adopted
by unanimous consent early in the evening of June 23, 2004. The
House of Representatives adopted the Senate bill the next day, and on June
30, 2004, President Bush signed the bill into law.
- Background
on child nutrition and WIC
programs is available in
a 58
page document written
by the non-partisan Congressional
Research Service (Updated
April 2004 - prior to the June
2004 bill).
Free
software to view the file is available
for download by exiting the
Senate site and linking directly
to the Adobe Acrobat web site.
- All-in-one source for nutrition providers:
USDA's Commodity Food Network
