Farm and Ranch to School Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3090
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-06-04
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education

Education programs funding

Elementary and secondary education

Teaching, teachers, curricula
Latest action: action_date: 2019-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-04
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Farm and Ranch to School Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill revises the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Farm to School Program to include in the program education activities in curriculum planning that encourage the participation of school children in ranching, livestock production, and meat processing educational activities.</p> <p>USDA must reserve 50% of the amounts made available for the program to carry out such activities.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3090 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 4, 2019 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to include ranching educational activities in the Farm to School Program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Farm and Ranch to School Act of 2019 . 2. Farm and Ranch to School Program Section 18(g) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1769(g) ) is amended— (1) in the heading, by inserting and ranch after farm ; (2) in paragraph (3)(A)— (A) by redesignating clauses (vi) and (vii) as clauses (vii) and (viii); and (B) by inserting after clause (v) the following: (vi) education activities in curriculum planning that encourage the participation of school children in ranching, livestock production, and meat processing educational activities; . (3) in paragraph (5)— (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting and meats after products ; (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (G) as subparagraphs (E) through (H), respectively; and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: (D) incorporate education activities in curriculum planning that encourage the participation of school children in ranching, livestock production, and meat processing educational activities; ; and (4) in paragraph (8), by adding at the end the following: (C) Reservation The Secretary shall reserve 50 percent of the amounts made available under subparagraph (A) and paragraph (9) to carry out the activities described in paragraph (3)(A)(vi). .