• Establishes a pilot project in one state, Nebraska, expanding area eligibility for family child care in rural areas by decreasing the area eligibility threshold from 50 to 40 percent. This 2-year pilot FY 2006-FY 2007 and USDA evaluation is fully funded (click here for details about this provision).
• Extends family child care Tier 1 area eligibility from three to five years (click here for a USDA memo about this provision).
• Raises the limit on CACFP eligibility for homeless shelters from 12 years of age to 18 years of age (click here for a USDA memo about this provision).
• Makes permanent CACFP eligibility for the for-profit child care centers serving 25 percent or more low-income children (click here for a USDA memo about this provision).
• Allows a permanent agreement between State agencies and institutions, and between sponsors and family child care providers (click here for a USDA memo about this provision).
• Raises the CACFP audit disregard to be consistent with other programs (from $100 to $600).
• Creates a paperwork reduction effort to examine the feasibility of reducing paperwork related to CACFP regulations and record keeping requirements (click here for details about this provision).
• Authorizes a demonstration project to enhance CACFP sponsoring organization and child care center obesity prevention activities targeted to limited-English-proficient audiences. (This project is not funded.)
• Continues to fund the USDA Management Improvement Initiative (FY05-FY06).
• Extends income eligibility privatized military housing exemption for children whose parents are in the Armed Forces (click here for details about this provision).
• Raises the minimum State Administrative Expense to $200,000 (click here for a USDA memo about this provision).
• Does not change the current law reducing the CACFP State agency audit funds from 1.5 percent to 1 percent for FY05-FY07.
For more information, contact Geri Henchy, 202-986-2200 x3025, ghenchy@frac.org.
Click here for more details on the highlights of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization CACFP Provisions.
Click here to return to FRAC's Child Nutrition Reauthorization Implementation website.
Updated November 4, 2004
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