This legislation establishes the Child Care Innovation Nutrition Pilot Program under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, aiming to address the challenges innovative child care providers face in accessing federal nutrition programs. It will provide reimbursement for nutritious food served to children in organized child care settings that are not private homes, such as commercial spaces, community centers, or employer-provided facilities. The program seeks to support new child care models by ensuring children receive healthy food, acknowledging that many innovative solutions currently find existing federal nutrition aid difficult to access. To be eligible, these child care programs must operate under a sponsoring organization and be state-licensed or approved, receiving reimbursement at the same rate as family or group day care homes. The pilot program allows for reimbursement for up to three years per program and includes robust accountability measures, such as strict monitoring and program integrity requirements mirroring similar federal nutrition programs. The bill mandates annual audits by the Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. Child care programs with unresolved audit findings for unauthorized expenditures will be excluded from receiving funds for two subsequent fiscal years. The Secretary is also required to prevent duplicative reimbursements across federal programs and report any instances of multiple awards for similar purposes to Congress. The pilot program is designed to run for five years, after which the Secretary must conduct an evaluation and submit a report to Congress. This report will assess the program's effectiveness in providing nutritious meals to additional low-income children and increasing overall child care access, and will include recommendations for potential permanent authority for such reimbursements.