Protecting School Meals from Fines Act

Bill: 114-hr-5043
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2016-04-21
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Child health

Department of Agriculture

Elementary and secondary education

Food assistance and relief

Food industry and services

Nutrition and diet

Public contracts and procurement

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-04-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protecting School Meals from Fines Act </b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the implementation of proposed Department of Agriculture regulations to establish criteria for imposing fines on school funding authorities, schools, and state agencies that are administering federal child nutrition programs and have: (1) failed to correct severe mismanagement of any program, (2) failed to correct repeated violations of program requirements, or (3) disregarded a requirement of which they have been informed. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5043 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 21, 2016 Mr. Wittman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing certain proposed rules on establishing criteria for imposition of fines under child nutrition programs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting School Meals from Fines Act . 2. Prohibition on certain rules The Secretary of Education shall not implement, administer, or enforce sections 210.18(q), 210.26(b), 215.15(b), 220.18(b), 225.13(a), 225.18(k), 226.6(k)(2)(xii), 226.25(i), and 235.11(c) and (g) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, (relating to the imposition of fines under section 22(e) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act), as proposed to be added or amended by the proposed regulations published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on March 29, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 17564 et seq.).