Minimum level of nonemergency food assistance

Section 412 of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f) is amended— (1) in subsection (e)(1), by striking 2023 and inserting 2031; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (f) Minimum levels of funding to To address child wasting (1) Minimum level For each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031, in addition to amounts otherwise made available, not less than $200,000,000 of the amounts made available to carry out emergency food assistance programs under title II shall be expended for the procurement and distribution of ready-to-use therapeutic foods. (2) Applicability The minimum expenditure requirement under paragraph (1) shall only apply with respect to a fiscal year if— (A) the most recent Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, published annually by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations Children’s Fund, report a rate of children under 5 years of age affected by child wasting above 5 percent for the year covered by such report; and (B) the total amount made available to carry out programs under title II in the fiscal year is greater than $1,200,000,000. (3) Rule of construction Nothing in this subsection may be construed to limit on the authority of the Secretary to purchase or distribute ready-to-use therapeutic foods in a fiscal year..