Title: Farm and Ranch to School Act of 2019
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Farm and Ranch to School Act of 2019
This bill revises the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Farm to School Program to include in the program education activities in curriculum planning that encourage the participation of school children in ranching, livestock production, and meat processing educational activities.
USDA must reserve 50% of the amounts made available for the program to carry out such activities.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3090 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3090

 To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to include 
     ranching educational activities in the Farm to School Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2019

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to include 
     ranching educational activities in the Farm to School Program.

    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 ``Farm and Ranch to School Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. FARM AND RANCH TO SCHOOL PROGRAM.

    Section 18(g) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1769(g)) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by inserting ``and Ranch'' after 
        ``Farm'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A)--
                    (A) by redesignating clauses (vi) and (vii) as 
                clauses (vii) and (viii); and
                    (B) by inserting after clause (v) the following:
                            ``(vi) education activities in curriculum 
                        planning that encourage the participation of 
                        school children in ranching, livestock 
                        production, and meat processing educational 
                        activities;''.
            (3) in paragraph (5)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and meats'' 
                after ``products'';
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (G) 
                as subparagraphs (E) through (H), respectively; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
                following:
                    ``(D) incorporate education activities in 
                curriculum planning that encourage the participation of 
                school children in ranching, livestock production, and 
                meat processing educational activities;''; and
            (4) in paragraph (8), by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Reservation.--The Secretary shall reserve 50 
                percent of the amounts made available under 
                subparagraph (A) and paragraph (9) to carry out the 
                activities described in paragraph (3)(A)(vi).''.
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