Healthy America Act

Bill: 108-hr-2592
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural research
Armed Forces and National Security
Beverages
Child health
Child nutrition
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense procurement
Department of Agriculture
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Families
Farm produce
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Food service
Fruit
Gardening
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Health
Health education
Labor and Employment
Law
Nutrition
Packaging
Preventive medicine
School health programs
School lunch program
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Standards
Vegetables
WIC program
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Healthy America Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to require schools participating in the school breakfast program to make available fruits and juices.
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (the Act) to direct the Secretary to expand the fruit and vegetable school pilot program.
Amends the Act to direct the Secretary, in conjunction with the National 5 a Day for Better Health program, to carry out a Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids program to provide grants to school districts for innovative projects to increase the availability and consumption of fruits and vegetables.
Amends the Act to require States to ensure that meals in the summer food service program include fruits, vegetables, and juices.
Directs the Secretary to revise in specified ways the regulations relating to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
Amends the Farm and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to increase the minimum amount to be spent on the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools and service institutions.
Directs the Secretary to develop a fruit and vegetable research agenda that coordinates research between agencies of the Department of Agriculture.
Directs the Secretary to appoint a national 5 A Day for Better Health program coordinator and seven regional coordinators to promote the consumption of fruit and vegetables.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should establish partnerships with State and local organizations to improve access to and efficient distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables to schools and nutrition programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House