To express the sense of the Senate that the final budget conference agreement should not take or propose any actions that reduce the level of funding provided for domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture below current baseline spending levels for the programs.

1. Adds SEC. 3____. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING FUNDING FOR DOMESTIC NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS at the end of title III

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   (2) establish an agricultural reserve to fund the activities in paragraph (1).

   Inserted: SEC. 3____. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING FUNDING FOR DOMESTIC NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

   Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--

   Inserted: (1) domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture--

   Inserted: (A) have a long history of bipartisan support;

   Inserted: (B) have an accomplished record of preventing health problems for children and

   Inserted: promoting the health, growth, and development of children;

   Inserted: (C) provide United States agricultural producers and food manufacturers with important and substantial markets through which they can obtain and sustain livelihoods; and

   Inserted: (D) are due to be reauthorized and improved during the 108th Congress; and

   Inserted: (2) the budget proposed by the President for fiscal year 2004--

   Inserted: (A) maintains current levels of funding for child nutrition;

   Inserted: (B) extends and improves nutrition assistance programs, including--

   Inserted: (i) the school breakfast program established by section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773);

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   Inserted: (ii) the school lunch program established under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.); and

   Inserted: (iii) the child and adult care food program established under the section 17 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766); and

   Inserted: (C) renews and fully funds the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children established by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786).

   Inserted: (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the final budget conference agreement should not take or propose any actions that reduce the level of funding provided for domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture below current baseline spending levels for the programs.

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   At the end of title III, add the following:

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