Bringing Awareness and Knowledge to Exempt Schools Against Legislative Encroachment Act

Bill: 114-hr-881
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-11
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Agriculture

Elementary and secondary education

Food assistance and relief

Food industry and services

Nutrition and diet

Poverty and welfare assistance

School administration
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Bringing Awareness and Knowledge to Exempt Schools Against Legislative Encroachment Act</strong></p> <p>Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from applying the rule entitled "National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010&quot; to food sold as a fundraiser that takes place on the grounds of a school, including by limiting the number of such fundraisers by state agencies or the Secretary. (The rule requires the Secretary to set nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools that are not foods sold under the school lunch and breakfast programs.)</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 881 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 11, 2015 Mr. Poe of Texas (for himself, Mr. Carter of Texas , Mr. Farenthold , Mr. Jones , Mr. Nugent , and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To prohibit certain nutrition rules with respect to foods sold at schools as a fundraiser.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bringing Awareness and Knowledge to Exempt Schools Against Legislative Encroachment Act . 2. Prohibition of certain rules The Secretary of Agriculture shall not implement, administer, or enforce the rule entitled National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on June 28, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 39068 et seq.), with respect to food sold as a fundraiser that takes place on the grounds of a school, including any requirements with respect to limiting the number of such fundraisers by State agencies or the Secretary of Agriculture.