S 882 · 94th Congress · Agriculture and Food
A bill to extend and revise the special supplemental food program.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.(1975-02-27)
Plain Language Summary
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States that the purpose of this Act is to provide supplemental nutritious food to pregnant women, infants, and young children in order to prevent the occurrence of health problems due to poor or inadequate nutrition. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make cash grants to the health department or comparable agency of each State, the Indian Health Service, and Indian tribes to enable them to carry out health and nutrition programs under which supplemental foods will be made available to all pregnant or lactating women and to infants determined by competent professionals to be nutritional risks because of inadequate nutrition and inadequate income, in order to improve their health status. Authorizes appropriations of $300,000,000 for each fiscal year to carry out such programs. States that if such sum has not been appropriated by July 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary is authorized to use $300,000,000 out of funds already appropriated for other programs. Directs the Secretary to pay up to 25 percent of the administrative costs of State or local agencies administering the program authorized by this Act. Requires State and local agencies to maintain adequate m…
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