Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-832
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2019-01-29
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child health

Elementary and secondary education

Food assistance and relief

Nutrition and diet
Latest action: action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2004)

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill allows schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to serve flavored and unflavored whole milk. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 832 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 29, 2019 Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Peterson , Mr. Meuser , Mr. Smucker , Ms. Stefanik , Mr. Collins of New York , Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois , Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania , Mr. Conaway , and Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania ) 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 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 Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2019 . 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 , flavored and unflavored whole milk, after unflavored fluid milk .