Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1957
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-06-13
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2023-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-06-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023</strong></p> <p>This bill revises requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture (USDA).</p> <p>Currently, schools participating in the program must provide milk that is consistent with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans; USDA regulations require milk to be fat-free or low-fat and allow milk to be flavored or unflavored. The bill modifies these restrictions and instead permits schools to offer students whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, and fat-free flavored and unflavored milk.</p> <p>In addition, schools currently participating in the program must provide meals that meet certain nutrition requirements; USDA regulations require that the average saturated fat content of the meals offered must be less than 10% of the total calories. Under the bill, fluid milk is excluded from the saturated fat content calculation; milk fat included in any fluid milk provided by the program must not be considered saturated fat for the purposes of measuring compliance with USDA regulations. </p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1957 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 13, 2023 Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Welch , Mr. Johnson , Mr. Fetterman , Mr. Risch , Ms. Collins , Mr. King , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mrs. Hyde-Smith , Mr. Crapo , and Mr. Grassley ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools that participate in the school lunch program to serve whole milk, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023 . 2. Whole milk permissible Section 9(a)(2) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)(A) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A)— (A) in clause (i), by striking milk. in the first sentence and all that follows through ( 7 U.S.C. 5341 ); and inserting milk; ; and (B) in clause (ii), by inserting whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, and fat-free after unflavored ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (D) Saturated fat Milk fat included in any fluid milk provided under subparagraph (A) shall not be considered saturated fat for purposes of measuring compliance with the allowable average saturated fat content of a meal under section 210.10 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations). .