Healthy School Meals Flexibility Act

Bill: 114-s-1146
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2015-04-30
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Child health

Department of Agriculture

Elementary and secondary education

Food assistance and relief

Grain

Nutrition and diet
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-30
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Healthy School Meals Flexibility Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from implementing any regulation that would require a reduction in the quantity of sodium contained in federally reimbursed meals, foods, and snacks sold in schools below specified July 2014 maximum levels allowed in school breakfasts for school year 2014-2015.</p> With respect to grain contents, USDA shall only require that half of all grains in such food items are whole grain-rich. School food authorities must comply with the applicable grain component or standard with respect to the school lunch or school breakfast program in effect before July 1, 2014.

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1146 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 30, 2015 Mr. Hoeven (for himself, Mr. King , Mr. Cotton , Mr. Boozman , and Mr. Risch ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit further reductions in sodium levels and to reinstate the grain-rich requirements applicable to the national school lunch and breakfast programs.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Healthy School Meals Flexibility Act . 2. Sodium target levels; whole grain requirement Section 9(f) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1758(f) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (5) Sodium target levels Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall not implement any regulation under this Act, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq. ), the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–296 ), or any other law that would require a reduction in the quantity of sodium contained in federally reimbursed meals, foods, and snacks sold in schools below Target 1 (as described in section 220.8(f)(3) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)). (6) Whole grain requirement Notwithstanding the final rule of the Secretary entitled Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs (77 Fed. Reg. 4088 (January 26, 2012)) or any other provision of law— (A) the Secretary shall only require that half of all grains in federally reimbursed meals, foods, and snacks sold in schools are whole grain-rich; and (B) school food authorities shall comply with the applicable grain component or standard with respect to the school lunch or school breakfast program that was in effect prior to July 1, 2014. .