Title: Improving Mental Health and Wellness in Schools Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Improving Mental Health and Wellness in Schools Act
This bill incorporates mental health promotion and education into guidelines for school wellness policies that are used by local educational agencies participating in school meal programs.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2930 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2930

  To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to modify 
            requirements for local school wellness policies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 5, 2021

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to modify 
            requirements for local school wellness policies.

    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 ``Improving Mental Health and Wellness 
in Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. LOCAL SCHOOL WELLNESS POLICY.

    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 ``mental health 
                promotion and education,'' after ``physical 
                activity,'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``obesity;'' 
                and inserting ``obesity and eating disorders;'';
                    (C) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by striking ``agency permit'' and 
                        inserting the following: ``agency--
                    ``(A) permit'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A) (as so 
                        designated)--
                                    (I) by inserting ``registered 
                                dietitians, school-based mental health 
                                services providers,'' after ``school 
                                administrators,''; and
                                    (II) by adding ``and'' after the 
                                semicolon at the end; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) establish a multidisciplinary team of school 
                personnel to lead the development, implementation, and 
                periodic review and updating of the local school 
                wellness policy;''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (5)(B), by striking ``1'' and 
                inserting ``2''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by inserting ``in consultation with the 
                        Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental 
                        Health Services Administration,'' after 
                        ``Prevention,''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``school-based mental 
                        health services providers (when available),'' 
                        after ``school food authorities,'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(C)--
                            (i) by striking ``required to promote'' and 
                        inserting the following: ``required--
                            ``(i) to promote''; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) to promote mental health, encourage 
                        mental health assessments, and establish 
                        resilient school environments; and''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
                        ``Prevention,'' and inserting ``Prevention and 
                        the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and 
                        Mental Health Services Administration,'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
                        ``2014,'' and inserting ``2026,''; and
                            (iii) by striking subparagraph (D).
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