Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act

Bill: 111-hr-5504
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adult day care
Aging
Child care and development
Child health
Department of Agriculture
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Fruit and vegetables
Health promotion and preventive care
Medicaid
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Poverty and welfare assistance
Rural conditions and development
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise the school lunch and breakfast programs, the summer food service program, the child and adult care food program (CACFP), and the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC program). 
 
Reauthorizes appropriations for such programs through FY2015.
 
Includes among such revisions: (1) encouraging the direct certification of children who receive other public assistance as eligible for free meals under the school lunch and breakfast programs; (2) establishing new mechanisms by which schools or local educational agencies (LEAs) with very high proportions of low-income children can receive federal reimbursement for free or reduced price meals under such programs without collecting individual paper applications from households; (3) establishing a program awarding competitive grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to LEAs to establish or expand the school breakfast program at low-income schools; (4) expanding the access of low-income rural areas to the summer food service program; (5) requiring updates to meal patterns and nutrition standards for the school lunch and breakfast programs based on recommendations made by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS); (6) requiring the establishment of science-based nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools outside the school lunch and breakfast programs; (7) requiring LEAs participating in the school lunch and breakfast programs to establish local school wellness policies for their schools that include goals for nutrition promotion and education, physical activity and education, and other school-based activities that promote student wellness; (8) requiring reimbursable meals and snacks provided under the CACFP to meet the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans and certain authoritative scientific recommendations; (9) encouraging WIC program participants to breastfeed; and (10) requiring WIC electronic benefit transfer (EBT) systems to be implemented nationwide by October 1, 2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 13.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-07-01
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House