Title: Safe Chicken and Meat for Children Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Safe Chicken and Meat for Children Act
This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit poultry or meat that is processed or produced in China from being used in the Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and Summer Food Service Program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3337 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3337

    To ban meat and poultry products processed in China from school 
                    lunches, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2017

 Ms. DeLauro (for herself, Ms. Speier, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Pingree, Mr. 
  Jones, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Rush, and Ms. Clarke of New 
    York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To ban meat and poultry products processed in China from school 
                    lunches, 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 ``Safe Chicken and Meat for Children 
Act''.

SEC. 2. BANNING MEAT AND POULTRY PRODUCTS PROCESSED IN CHINA FROM 
              SCHOOL LUNCHES.

    (a) School Lunch and Breakfast.--Section 9(h) of the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Prohibiting the use of certain meat and poultry.--A 
        school participating in the school lunch program under this Act 
        or the school breakfast program under section 4 of the Child 
        Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) may not serve under such 
        a program:
                    ``(A) Poultry or poultry products (as defined in 
                sections 4(e) and (f) of the Poultry Products 
                Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 453(e) and (f))), produced or 
                processed, in whole or in part, in the People's 
                Republic of China.
                    ``(B) Meat or meat food products (as defined in 
                section 1(j) of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 
                U.S.C. 601(j))), produced or processed, in whole or in 
                part, in the People's Republic of China.''.
    (b) Child and Adult Care Food Program.--Section 17(g)(2)(A) of the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(g)(2)(A)) 
is amended by striking ``this section shall consist of a combination of 
foods that meet minimum nutritional requirements prescribed by the 
Secretary on the basis of tested nutritional research.'' and inserting 
the following: ``this section--
                            ``(i) shall consist of a combination of 
                        foods that meet minimum nutritional 
                        requirements prescribed by the Secretary on the 
                        basis of tested nutritional research; and
                            ``(ii) may not include the products 
                        described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
                        section 9(h)(6).''.
    (c) Summer Food Service Program for Children.--Section 13(f)(1) of 
the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (7 U.S.C. 1431(f)(1)) 
is amended by striking ``this section shall serve meals consisting of a 
combination of foods and meeting minimum nutritional standards 
prescribed by the Secretary on the basis of tested nutritional 
research.'' and inserting the following: ``this section--
                    ``(A) shall serve meals consisting of a combination 
                of foods and meeting minimum nutritional standards 
                prescribed by the Secretary on the basis of tested 
                nutritional research; and
                    ``(B) may not serve the products described in 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 9(h)(6).''.
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