School Nutrition Transparency for Healthy Kids Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3049
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Schrier, Kim [D-WA-8]
Introduced: 2019-05-30
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education

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School administration
Latest action: action_date: 2019-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-05-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>School Nutrition Transparency for Healthy Kids Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires that each state educational agency annually publish on the Department of Agriculture website data on the compliance of school food authorities with respect to nutritional requirements, including</p> <ul> <li> the number of school food authorities in compliance with such requirements, disaggregated by state; </li> <li> the total number of such authorities in each state; and </li> <li> the percentage of such authorities in compliance with such requirements, disaggregated by state.</li> </ul> <ul> <ul> </ul> </ul>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3049 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 30, 2019 Ms. Schrier introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To ensure public disclosure of nutrition standards compliance by school food authorities, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the School Nutrition Transparency for Healthy Kids Act of 2019 . 2. Public disclosure of compliance Section 22(c) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1769c ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (3) beginning not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, and at least annually thereafter, publish on the website of the Department of Agriculture data on the compliance of school food authorities with respect to the nutritional requirements under section 9(f), including— (A) the number of school food authorities in compliance with such requirements, disaggregated by State; (B) the total number of school food authorities in each State; and (C) the percentage of school food authorities in compliance with such requirements, disaggregated by State. .