NASULGC's Farm Bill Provisions

411. Expanded Food
and Nutrition Education Program

Summary

Changes the funding formula for EFNEP to include the 1890
and Insular Area institutions, provide $100,000 in
funding to each eligible EFNEP institution, and to provide 3 percent of the
poverty Census based funding to the 1890 institutions.  Specifies that the EFNEP poverty
Census based funding be provided directly to 1862, 1890, and insular area
institutions, as opposed to being allocated to the States, as under current
law.  Provides that if any EFNEP
payment allocation is calculated to be less than $100,000, the Secretary
shall adjust EFNEP payment allocations so that each eligible institution
receives a payment of not less than $100,000 for that fiscal year.  Increases the authorized funding from
$83 million to $90 million per year.

Legislative
Language

SEC. 411. EXPANDED FOOD AND
NUTRITION EDUCATION PROGRAM.

(a)
FUNDING TO 1862, 1890, AND INSULAR AREA INSTITUTIONS.—Section
1425(c)(2)(B) of the National Agriculture Research, Extension, and Teaching
Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3175(c)(2)(B)) is amended—

(1) in the
prefatory material by striking “among the States”;

(2) by striking
clause (i) and inserting the following:

“(i)
$100,000 shall be distributed to each of the land grant colleges and
universities (including the University of the District of Columbia and the appropriate
institution in each of the insular areas);”;

(3)
by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii);

(4) by inserting after clause (i) the following:

“(ii) 3
percent of the remainder shall be allocated to each 1890 Institution (as
defined in section 2 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education
Reform Act of 1998) in an amount that bears the same ratio to the total
amount to be allocated under this clause as the population of the State
living at or below 125 percent of the income poverty guidelines prescribed by
the Office of Management and Budget (adjusted pursuant to section 673(2) of
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 9902)), bears to the
total population of all the States that have 1890 Institutions living at or
below 125 percent of the income poverty guidelines, as determined by the last
preceding decennial census at the time each such additional amount is first
appropriated; and”; and

(5) by amending clause (iii), as redesignated, by striking “allocated to each
State” and inserting “allocated to the institution eligible to
receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (including the appropriate
insular area institution) in each State”.

(b) AUTHORIZATION.—Section
1425(c)(3) of the National Agriculture Research,
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3175(c)(3)) is amended
by striking “$83,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1996 though
2007” and inserting “$90,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008
through 2014”.

(c) MINIMUM ALLOCATION.—Section
1425 of the National Agriculture Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act
of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3175) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(d) ADJUSTMENTS.— If the payment allocation determined pursuant to
subsection (c) for any institution eligible under section 3(d) of the
Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343) would be less than $100,000 for any fiscal
year, the Secretary shall adjust payment allocations under subsection (c) so
that each institution eligible under section 3(d) of the Smith-Lever Act (7
U.S.C. 343) receives a payment of not less than $100,000 for that fiscal
year.”.

(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this
section take effect on October 1, 2007