Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): non-discretionary funding provisions of the William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998. Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. Final rule.
This final rule incorporates into the WIC program regulations numerous non-discretionary funding provisions mandated in the William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998. This rule revises and expands backspend and spendforward authority, conversion of funds, multipurpose/infrastructure grants and the use of food funds for the purchase of breast pumps. The rule also revises nutrition services and administration expenditure standards and expands the timing for the use of vendor and participant collections. The provisions in this rule provide greater flexibility for State agencies in the operation of WIC program relating to funds management.
D001942:Breast Feeding; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009752:Nutritional Status; D013396:Suction / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014481:United States