Sec. 2304. Pandemic EBT program
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Section 1101 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act ( 7 U.S.C. 2011 note; Public Law 116–127 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by striking During fiscal years 2020 and 2021 and inserting In any school year in which there is a public health emergency designation ; and by inserting or in a covered summer period following a school session after in session ; by amending subsection
(e)to read as follows: Notwithstanding any provision of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize State educational agencies and school food authorities administering a school lunch program under such Act to release to appropriate officials administering the supplemental nutrition assistance program such information as may be necessary to carry out this section, including to carry out assistance during a covered summer period pursuant to subsection (i). ; in subsection (f)(2), in the paragraph heading, by striking ; For School Year 2020–2021 in subsection (g), by striking During fiscal year 2020, the and inserting The ; in subsection (h)(1)— by inserting either after at least 1 child enrolled in such a covered child care facility and ; and by inserting or a Department of Agriculture grant-funded nutrition assistance program in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, or American Samoa before shall be eligible to receive assistance ; by redesignating subsections
(i)and
(j)as subsections
(j)and (k), respectively; by inserting after subsection
(h)the following: The Secretary of Agriculture may permit a State agency to extend a State agency plan approved under subsection
(b)for not more than 90 days for the purpose of operating the plan during a covered summer period, during which time schools participating in the school lunch program under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) or the school breakfast program under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1773 ) and covered child care facilities shall be deemed closed for purposes of this section. ; in subsection
(j)(as so redesignated)— by redesignating paragraphs
(2)through
(6)as paragraphs
(3)through (7), respectively; by inserting after paragraph
(1)the following: The term covered summer period means a summer period that follows a school year during which there was a public health emergency designation. ; and in paragraph
(5)(as so redesignated), by striking or another coronavirus with pandemic potential ; and in subsection
(k)(as so redesignated), by inserting Federal agencies, before State agencies .
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