Title: LIVE Well Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Long-term InVestment in Education and Wellness Act or the LIVE Well Act
This bill includes eating-disorder prevention and promotion of long-term health practices in the educational component of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP-Ed) and local school wellness policies created under the National School Lunch Program or other federal child nutrition programs. Under current law, states may elect to implement certain nutrition education and obesity prevention programs as part of SNAP-Ed; this bill requires the Department of Agriculture to specifically implement a nutrition education and obesity prevention program that includes a focus on long-term health practices.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2625 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2625

 To amend section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to include 
eating disorders prevention within the nutrition education and obesity 
prevention grant program and the local wellness program; and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2019

 Ms. Adams (for herself and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to include 
eating disorders prevention within the nutrition education and obesity 
prevention grant program and the local wellness program; 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 ``Long-term InVestment in Education 
for Wellness Act'' or the ``LIVE Well Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Eating disorders affect 30 million Americans during 
        their lifetime and have the highest mortality rate of any 
        psychiatric illness.
            (2) Eating disorders affect people of all body sizes, ages, 
        races, sexual orientations, ethnicities, and socioeconomic 
        statuses.
            (3) Eating disorders are complex, biologically based 
        serious mental illnesses that include the specific disorders of 
        anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, 
        avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder, and other specified 
        feeding or eating disorders.
            (4) Eighty percent of people with an eating disorder are 
        normal or higher weight, and 81 percent of people with binge 
        eating disorder are clinically higher weight or have obesity.
            (5) One in 4 people seeking obesity treatment has an 
        underlying eating disorder that is often undiagnosed.
            (6) Children in higher weight bodies are more likely to 
        engage in unhealthy weight-control measures, and \2/3\ are at 
        risk of an eating disorder.
            (7) Research shows that focusing on weight talk, weight 
        stigma, and dieting does not result in long-term reduction in 
        weight; \2/3\ of dieters will regain more weight than lost from 
        dieting.
            (8) Studies show that shifting prevention focuses from 
        weight and dieting towards long-term health practices, 
        including a focus on body positivity, nutrition, decreasing 
        weight-based bullying or harassment, and physical activity, 
        without a focus on weight, BMI testing, or negative weight 
        talk, reduces risk factors for populations affected by eating 
        disorders and populations affected by obesity.

SEC. 3. EATING DISORDERS PREVENTION.

    (a) Amendments.--Section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
(7 U.S.C. 2036a) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) of subsection 
        (a), by striking ``and'' and inserting ``, eating disorders 
        prevention, or'',
            (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
    ``(b) Grant Programs.--The Secretary, acting through the Director 
of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with 
the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service, shall implement an 
evidence-based nutrition education, eating disorders prevention, or 
obesity prevention program for eligible individuals that promotes 
healthy food choices and physical activity with a focus on long-term 
health practices.'',
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the heading by striking ``and'' and 
                inserting ``, Eating Disorders Prevention, or'',
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by inserting ``evidence-based'' after 
                        ``deliver'', and
                            (ii) by striking ``and'' and inserting ``, 
                        eating disorders prevention, or'',
                    (C) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``and'' 
                        and inserting ``, eating disorders prevention, 
                        or'', and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B)--
                                    (I) in clause (iii) by striking `` 
                                and'' at the end,
                                    (II) in clause (iv) by striking the 
                                period at the end and inserting ``; 
                                and'', and
                                    (III) by adding at the end the 
                                following:
                            ``(v) ensure that interventions encourage 
                        screening for eating disorders and include 
                        long-term health practices.'',
                    (D) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) in clause (i) by inserting 
                                ``eating disorders prevention and 
                                screening,'' after ``education,'', and
                                    (II) in clause (iii) by inserting 
                                ``and long-term health practices'' 
                                after ``nutrition'', and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B)--
                                    (I) in the matter preceding clause 
                                (i)--
                                            (aa) by inserting ``and 
                                        eating disorders prevention,'' 
                                        after ``education'', and
                                            (bb) by inserting ``, 
                                        Assistant Secretary of the 
                                        Substance Abuse and Mental 
                                        Health Services 
                                        Administration,'' after 
                                        ``Centers for Disease Control 
                                        and Prevention'', and
                                    (II) in clause (ii) by inserting 
                                ``and eating disorders'' after 
                                ``education'',
                    (E) in paragraph (4)--
                            (i) by striking ``and'' after 
                        ``education'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``, eating disorders 
                        prevention, or'' after ``nutrition education'',
                    (F) in paragraph (6)--
                            (i) by striking ``and'' after ``nutrition 
                        education'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``, eating disorders 
                        prevention, or'' after ``nutrition education'',
                    (G) in paragraph (7)(C)--
                            (i) by striking ``and'' after ``nutrition 
                        education'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``, eating disorders 
                        prevention, or'' after ``nutrition education'',
                    (H) in paragraph (8) by striking ``and'' the first 
                place it appears and inserting ``, eating disorders 
                prevention, or'', and
                    (I) in paragraph (9)(A)(i)--
                            (i) by striking ``and'' after ``the 
                        nutrition education'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``, eating disorders 
                        prevention, or'' after ``nutrition education'',
            (4) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ``and'' the first 
                place it appears and inserting ``, eating disorders 
                prevention, or'',
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``and'' 
                        and inserting ``, eating disorders prevention, 
                        or'', and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B) by striking 
                        ``and'' and inserting ``, eating disorders 
                        prevention, or'', and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out 
        this section.'', and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Definition.--In this section the term `long-term health 
practices' means long-lasting changes within an individual focused on 
nutrition, body positivity, and physical activity, focusing on overall 
health outcomes including changes in behavior and metabolic health.''.

SEC. 4. LOCAL WELLNESS GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 9A of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758b) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``promotion of 
                long-term health practices (as defined in subsection 
                (f) of section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
                (7 U.S.C. 2036a)), reduction of disordered eating 
                within children,'' after ``activity,'', and
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``registered 
                dietitian nutritionists, licensed mental health 
                professionals,'' after ``administrators,'',
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by inserting ``and in coordination with 
                        the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
                        Administration,'' after ``Centers for Disease 
                        Control and Prevention,'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``school health 
                        professionals,'' after ``school food 
                        authorities,'',
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(C)--
                            (i) by inserting ``and eating disorders 
                        prevention and screening'' after ``sound 
                        nutrition'', and
                            (ii) by inserting ``and long-term health 
                        practices (as such term is defined in 
                        subsection (f) of section 28 of the Food and 
                        Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036a))'' after 
                        ``nutrition environments'',
                    (C) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and 
                        the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
                        Administration'' after ``Centers for Disease 
                        Control and Prevention'', and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
                        ``2014'' and inserting ``2021'', and
                    (D) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``2011'', and 
                inserting ``2020''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply beginning with the first school year that begins at least 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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