{"format":1,"id":"117-s-2089","congress":117,"number":"S. 2089","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022","title_source":"Short Titles as Enacted","official_title":"A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that grants provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for State veterans' cemeteries do not restrict States from authorizing the interment of certain deceased members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces in such cemeteries, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that grants provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for State veterans' cemeteries do not restrict States from authorizing the interment of certain deceased members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces in such cemeteries, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Title(s) from Engrossed Amendment House bill text","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) from Engrossed Amendment Senate bill text","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022"},{"type":"Official Titles as Amended by House","title":"To amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to extend child nutrition waiver authority, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Titles as Enacted","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022"},{"type":"Other Short Titles","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022"},{"type":"Official Titles as Amended by Senate","title":"An Act to amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to extend child nutrition waiver authority, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed Senate","title":"Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate","title":"Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021"}],"outcome":"became_law","law_number":"Public Law 117-158","introduced":"2021-06-16","chambers":{"house":{"status":"voice","date":"2022-06-24","vote":null,"how":"voice_vote","words":"Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment to the House amendment Agreed to by voice vote."},"senate":{"status":"voice","date":"2022-06-23","vote":null,"how":"unanimous_consent","words":"Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the title by Unanimous Consent."}},"president":{"status":"signed","date":"2022-06-25"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Became Public Law No: 117-158.","date":"2022-06-25"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2022-06-23","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Keep Kids Fed Act","result":"Passed","yea":376,"nay":42,"present":0,"not_voting":11,"kind":"final_candidate","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll290.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2022-06-25","stage":"Public Law","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill provides funding for and makes changes to school meal programs and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). It also rescinds certain funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021; the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the bill increases the reimbursement rate for school lunches by 40 cents and for school breakfasts by 15 cents for the school year beginning in July 2022."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill extends the authority of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to waive certain requirements for the school meal programs and the CACFP to address COVID-19. In particular, the bill extends authority"},{"k":"li","t":"through September 30, 2022, for USDA to grant waivers related to summer food service programs;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"through June 30, 2022, for USDA to grant waivers of requirements to allow non-congregate feeding in the CACFP for purposes of providing meals and snacks with appropriate safety measures with respect to COVID-19; and","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"through June 30, 2023, for USDA to grant waivers related to the nutritional content of meals served in child nutrition programs if it determines the waiver is necessary to provide meals and snacks, and there is a food supply chain disruption due to COVID-19.","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"The bill authorizes USDA to establish a nationwide waiver of statutory and regulatory requirements under child nutrition programs for the 2022-2023 school year."},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the bill increase the reimbursement rate for meals and snacks under the CACFP by 10 cents for the school year beginning in July 2022. Further, the bill increases the reimbursement of tier II family or group day care homes to tier I amounts for the 2022-2023 school year."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill rescinds certain funding provided to USDA, the Department of Education, and the Small Business Administration."},{"k":"p","t":"Finally, the bill requires USDA to ensure that technical assistance is made available to states and school food authorities for assisting parents and school leaders with transitioning to the operation of school meal programs without certain waivers."}],"words":336},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Provides additional reimbursement for school meals and the Child and Adult Care Food Program for the school year beginning July 2022, extends and limits certain COVID-19 child nutrition waivers, and rescinds unobligated balances from earlier funding laws.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#idA5FAD777C79C48A3A7C10493AFE844C8:~:text=2.%20Support%20for%20child%20nutrition%20programs"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#id01E4EECD2ECB473B97E29AF2F5DE4FC7:~:text=3.%20Child%20and%20adult%20care%20food%20program"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#id5c90bf858e334674aa3e0ab3cb458273:~:text=4.%20Rescissions%20and%20sunset"}]},"core_areas":["School lunch and breakfast reimbursement rates","Child nutrition program waiver authority","Child and Adult Care Food Program reimbursement and tier determinations","Rescissions of unobligated balances from earlier COVID-19 relief and appropriations laws"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Provides additional reimbursement of 40 cents for each school lunch and 15 cents for each school breakfast, available only for the school year beginning July 2022.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#idA5FAD777C79C48A3A7C10493AFE844C8:~:text=2.%20Support%20for%20child%20nutrition%20programs"}},{"text":"Amends section 2202 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act so that the Secretary's authority for nationwide waivers expires on September 30, 2022, the Child and Adult Care Food Program waiver authority expires on June 30, 2022, and the meal pattern waiver authority expires on June 30, 2023.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#idA5FAD777C79C48A3A7C10493AFE844C8:~:text=2.%20Support%20for%20child%20nutrition%20programs"}},{"text":"Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to establish nationwide waivers under section 12(l) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act for school year 2022-2023 without requiring a waiver application, and ends any such waiver after June 30, 2023.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#idA5FAD777C79C48A3A7C10493AFE844C8:~:text=2.%20Support%20for%20child%20nutrition%20programs"}},{"text":"Provides additional reimbursement of 10 cents for each meal and supplement served under the Child and Adult Care Food Program for the school year beginning July 2022.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#id01E4EECD2ECB473B97E29AF2F5DE4FC7:~:text=3.%20Child%20and%20adult%20care%20food%20program"}},{"text":"Treats a tier II family or group day care home as a tier I home for the school year beginning July 2022 under the Child and Adult Care Food Program.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#id01E4EECD2ECB473B97E29AF2F5DE4FC7:~:text=3.%20Child%20and%20adult%20care%20food%20program"}},{"text":"Permanently rescinds unobligated balances of $1,000,000,000 and $400,000,000 for the Department of Agriculture, $400,000,000 for the Department of Education, and $1,200,000,000 for the Small Business Administration, plus a further $600,000,000 for the Department of Agriculture.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#id5c90bf858e334674aa3e0ab3cb458273:~:text=4.%20Rescissions%20and%20sunset"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"off_subject","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr#id5c90bf858e334674aa3e0ab3cb458273:~:text=4.%20Rescissions%20and%20sunset"},"heading":"Rescissions and sunset","effect":"Subsection (c) amends section 756 of division N of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 so that it applies for each of fiscal years 2021 and 2022; the other subsections permanently rescind unobligated balances from earlier laws.","amount":null,"quote":"by striking “for fiscal year” and all that follows through “thereafter” and inserting “for each of fiscal years 2021 and 2022”"}]}],"version":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"rule":"enrolled","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"changes":{"first":{"chamber":"Senate","type":"Engrossed in Senate","date":"2022-03-07","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/es"},"final":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/enr"},"kept":0.0,"replaced":true,"removed":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/es#HA0899E8097A6416EBEA4A49AA07B4ED3:~:text=1.%20Short%20title"},"heading":"Short title","effect":null,"partly":null,"part":null},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text/es#HB73E01D6FA4B43AB890AE5CF430D2623:~:text=2.%20Prohibitions%20on%20restricting%20interment%20of%20certain"},"heading":"Prohibitions on restricting interment of certain individuals in certain State veterans' cemeteries","effect":null,"partly":null,"part":null}],"added":[],"added_count":4,"approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2089/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-s-2089.png","v":"9b3ec5750ef8","alt":"Votes on Record. S. 2089, 117th Congress: Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022. House: voice vote. Senate: unanimous consent. Outcome: Became law, 25 Jun 2022."}}