No Hungry Kids Act

Bill: 114-hr-1363
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-13
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child health

Elementary and secondary education

Food assistance and relief

Fruit and vegetables

Nutrition and diet

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

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>No Hungry Kids Act</strong></p> <p>Nullifies the rule published by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 26, 2012, establishing nutrition standards for the school lunch and breakfast programs. (This rule is summarized as requiring most schools to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free and low-fat fluid milk in school meals; reduce the levels of sodium, saturated fat and trans fat in meals; and meet the nutrition needs of school children within their calorie requirements.)</p> <p>Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit USDA's minimum nutritional requirements for school lunches from being construed as establishing a calorie maximum for individual school lunches or prohibiting a child from eating a lunch provided by the child's parent or legal guardian.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1363 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 13, 2015 Mr. King of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Huelskamp ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To repeal a certain rule relating to nutrition standards in the national school lunch and school breakfast programs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Hungry Kids Act . 2. Repeal of rule The rule prescribed by the Food and Nutrition Service of the Department of Agriculture relating to nutrition standards in the national school lunch and school breakfast programs published on January 26, 2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 4088 et seq.), and revising parts 210 and 220 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, shall have no force or effect. 3. Limits on certain nutritional requirements Section 9(a)(1)(A)(i) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(1)(A)(i) ) is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: , to establish a calorie maximum for individual school lunches, or to prohibit a child from eating a lunch provided by the child’s parent or legal guardian .