WHOLE MILK Act

Bill: 115-hr-5640
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Marino, Tom [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2018-04-26
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child health

Elementary and secondary education

Food assistance and relief

Nutrition and diet
Latest action: action_date: 2018-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Wholesome Healthy Original Lactic Excellence Making Intelligent Literate Kids Act or the WHOLE MILK Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to serve unflavored whole milk. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5640 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 26, 2018 Mr. Marino (for himself and Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools that participate in the school lunch program under such Act to serve whole milk.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Wholesome Healthy Original Lactic Excellence Making Intelligent Literate Kids Act or the WHOLE MILK Act . 2. Whole milk permissible Section 9(a)(2)(A) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)(A) ) is amended— (1) in clause (i), by striking . Such milk shall be consistent with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans published under section 301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 ( 7 U.S.C. 5341 ) ; and (2) in clause (ii), by inserting , unflavored whole milk, after unflavored fluid milk .