---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1781"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1781"
heading: "Preschool programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1781"
units:
  - "Chapter 13A — Child Nutrition"
---

# §1781. Preschool programs


The [Secretary](/usc/42/1784.md?p=4) may extend the benefits of all school feeding programs conducted and supervised by the Department of Agriculture to include preschool programs operated as part of the school system.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–642, § 12, Oct 11, 1966, 80 Stat. 889.)