Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act
This bill adds requirements regarding the availability of training that the Department of Agriculture provides under current law for local food service personnel in schools.
The training must be scheduled primarily during regular, paid working hours; offered in-person whenever appropriate; and incorporate hands-on training techniques.
If the training is scheduled outside of working hours, food service personnel must be informed about the necessity of scheduling the program and compensated for attending the program. Personnel may not be penalized for failing to attend a program outside of working hours.
To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to clarify the availability 
 and appropriateness of training for local food service personnel, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Improving Training for School Food 
Service Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING.

    Section 7(g)(2)(B) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1776(g)(2)(B)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) Availability and appropriateness of 
                        training.--A training program carried out under 
                        this subparagraph shall be--
                                    ``(I) a program scheduled primarily 
                                during regular, paid working hours, and 
                                in the event such program is scheduled 
                                outside of such working hours--
                                            ``(aa) efforts shall be 
                                        made to inform food service 
                                        personnel of the necessity of 
                                        such program to be so 
                                        scheduled;
                                            ``(bb) compensation shall 
                                        be provided to such personnel 
                                        for attending such program; and
                                            ``(cc) such personnel shall 
                                        not be penalized for not being 
                                        able to attend such program; 
                                        and
                                    ``(II) offered in-person whenever 
                                appropriate, and incorporate hands-on 
                                training techniques.''.
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Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act
To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to clarify the availability and appropriateness of training for local food service personnel, and for other purposes.
Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act
Rep. Pocan, Mark