Jumpstarting Occupational-learning and Entrepreneurship Act

Bill: 113-hr-4713
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2014-05-21
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Business education

Elementary and secondary education

Food industry and services

Nutrition and diet

Retail and wholesale trades

School administration

Small business

Teaching, teachers, curricula
Latest action: action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-05-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Jumpstarting Occupational-learning and Entrepreneurship Act or the JOE Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to exempt school-based enterprises that are managed as part of a school's curriculum from the nutrition standards for foods sold in schools that are not foods provided under the school lunch and breakfast programs.</p> <p>Defines a "school-based enterprise" as an entrepreneurial operation in a school setting that:</p> <ul> <li>provides goods or services to meet the needs of the market;</li> <li>is managed and operated by students as a hands-on learning laboratory;</li> <li>provides realistic and practical learning experiences that reinforce classroom instruction;</li> <li>may sell to consumers through a permanent location, a mobile kiosk, or through Internet marketing; and</li> <li>may sell products such as food and beverage items or provide services such as event catering.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4713 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 21, 2014 Mr. Womack introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to exempt school-based enterprises from nutrition standards.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Jumpstarting Occupational-learning and Entrepreneurship Act or the JOE Act . 2. Exemption of school-based enterprises from nutrition standards Section 10(b)(1) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1779(b)(1) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (C)— (A) by striking and at the end of clause (i); (B) by striking the period at the end of clause (ii)(IV) and inserting ; and ; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (iii) exempt from such nutrition standards school-based enterprises managed as part of a school’s curriculum. ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (E) School-based enterprise defined For purposes of this subsection, the term school-based enterprise means an entrepreneurial operation in a school setting that— (i) provides goods or services to meet the needs of the market; (ii) is managed and operated by students enrolled in the school as a hands-on learning laboratory; (iii) provides realistic and practical learning experiences that reinforce classroom instruction; (iv) may sell to consumers through a permanent location, a mobile kiosk, or through Internet marketing; and (v) may sell products such as food and beverage items, or provide services such as event catering. .