FNS Documents & Resources

[As amended through PL 91-671, Enacted Jan. 11, 1971]
To strengthen the agricultural economy; to help to achieve a fuller and more effective use of food abundances; to provide for improved levels of nutrition among low-income households through a cooperative federal-state program of food assistance to be operated through normal channels of trade; and for other purposes.

To provide for uniform and equitable treatment of persons displaced from their homes, businesses, or farms by federal and federally assisted programs and to establish uniform and equitable laud acquisition policies for federal and federally assisted programs.

To provide a comprehensive federal program for the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

To amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to clarify responsibilities related to providing free and reduced-price meals and preventing discrimination against children, to revise program matching requirements, to strengthen the nutrition training and education benefits of the programs, and otherwise to strengthen the food service programs for children in schools and service institutions.

To amend the National School Lunch Act to strengthen and expand food service programs for children, and for other purposes.

To strengthen and expand food service programs for children.

To strengthen the agricultural economy; to help to achieve a fuller and more effective use of food abundances; to provide for improved levels of nutrition among low-income households through a cooperative Federal-State program of food assistance to be operated through normal channels of trade; and for other purposes.

To extend and amend laws relating to the provision and improvement of housing and the renewal of urban communities, and for other purposes.

To extend the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That this Act may be cited as the "Agricultural Act of 1956."