I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5027 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to assess the effectiveness and efficiency 
of administrative review systems to ensure compliance with Federal meal 
standards. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 14, 2010 
Mr. TONKO (for himself, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. FUDGE, and Ms. RICHARDSON) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to assess the effective-
ness and efficiency of administrative review systems to 
ensure compliance with Federal meal standards. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Eating Healthy at 
School Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Information about school meal quality is 
vital to maximizing the national investment in the 
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school meal programs established under the Richard 
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
1751 et seq.) and section 4 of the Child Nutrition 
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) and for measuring 
the effectiveness of and compliance with Federal 
school meal standards. 
(2) Assessing compliance with Federal school 
meal standards will enhance child health and the nu-
tritional quality of school meals, contribute to nutri-
tion research and evaluation of the school meal pro-
grams, and improve oversight of the school meal 
programs. 
(3) According to the School Nutrition Dietary 
Assessment Study-III of the school meals served 
under the school meal programs in school year 
2004–2005, the majority of schools offered break-
fasts and lunches that met the standards for the rec-
ommended daily intake of key nutrients, such as vi-
tamins A and C, calcium, protein, and iron, but that 
the majority of school lunches were still too high in 
fat, saturated fat, and sodium. 
(4) Reviews of the nutritional quality of school 
meals under the school meals initiative for healthy 
children (60 Fed. Reg. 31188 (1995)) assess only 
the lunches served in 1 school per school food au-
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thority every 5 years and do not include assessments 
of breakfasts served by schools participating in the 
school breakfast program established under section 4 
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) 
or compliance with nutrition standards for foods sold 
in schools outside of the school meal programs. 
(5) Reviews of school meals under the school 
meals initiative for healthy children are laborious for 
State child nutrition programs and local school food 
authorities. Simplified, less burdensome, and more 
effective approaches are needed. 
(6) The Institute of Medicine recommends 
changes to school meals to reflect the most recent 
Dietary Guidelines for Americans published under 
section 301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring 
and Related Research Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341). 
The recommendations for new meal requirements in-
volve significant shifts in the approach of schools to 
menu planning and will likely require new mecha-
nisms for monitoring meal quality. 
(7) Food of poor nutritional value sold in 
schools outside of the school meal programs can un-
dermine the national investment in school meals. 
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