A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act to assure that Federal financial assistance to the child nutrition programs is maintained at the level budgeted for fiscal year ending June 30, 1973.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine by March 1, 1973, the amount of funds programmed and budgeted under specified Acts which will not be expended during the fiscal year 1973 for the purchase of agricultural commodities for distribution to school lunch programs. Provides that the amount of such funds shall be allocated among the States in proportion to the number of meals served in a State in the fiscal year 1972 under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act as that number relates to the total number of such meals served for such year in all the States. States that such funds shall be used for the purchase of food supplies by schools participating in school lunch and child nutrition programs. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 1755)…