PUBLIC LAW 95-627—NOV. 10, 1978
92 STAT. 3623
Consumer Price Index, by the change between the average 1977 Consumer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index of March 1978, using the most current procedures of the Office of Management and Budget. The income poverty guidelines for future periods shall be similarly adjusted."; and (2) amending the fifth sentence to read as follows: "The income guidelines for free lunches shall be prescribed at 25 percent above the applicable family size income levels in the income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Secretary.". STUDY OF M E N U CHOICE
SEC. 9. The National School Lunch Act is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section 22 as follows: "STUDY OF M E N U CHOICE
22. As a means of diminishing waste of foods without endan- 42 USC 1769c. gering nutritional integrity of meals served, the Secretary shall conduct a study to determine the cost and feasibility of requiring schools to offer a choice of menu items within the required meal patterns. This study shall, as a minimum, include different needs and capabilities of elementary and secondary schools for such a requirement. The Secretary shall develop regulations designed to diminish such waste based on the results of this study.". •'SEC.
MISCELLANB:OUS PROVISIONS
SEC. 10. (a) Section 12 of the National School Lunch Act is amended by adding at the end thereof new subsections (f) and (g) as follows: "(f) In providing assistance for school breakfasts and lunches served in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Secretary may establish appropriate adjustments for each such State to the national average payment rates prescribed under sections 4 and 11 of this Act and section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, to reflect the differences between the costs of providing lunches and breakfasts in those States and the costs of providing lunches and breakfasts in all other States. "(g) Whoever embezzles, willfully misapplies, steals, or obtains by fraud any funds, assets, or property that are the subject of a grant or other form of assistance under this Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, whether received directly or indirectly from the United States Department of Agriculture, or whoever receives, conceals, or retains such funds, assets, or property to his use or gain, knowing such funds, assets, or property have been embezzled, willfully misapplied, stolen, or obtained by fraud shall, if such funds, assets, or property are of the value of $100 or more, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, or, if such funds, assets, or property are of a value of less than $100, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.". (b) Section 12(d)(7) of the National School Lunch Act is amended to read as follows:
42 USC 1760.
42 USC 1754, 1759a. 42 USC 1773.
Penalty, 42 USC 1771 note.
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