Protecting School Milk Choices Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-592
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-21
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protecting School Milk Choices Act of 2025</strong><strong></strong></p><p>This bill revises requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture.</p><p>Currently, schools participating in the program&nbsp;may provide flavored and unflavored fluid milk and lactose-free fluid milk.</p><p>Under the bill, these schools must provide students flavored and unflavored fluid milk. These schools maintain the discretion to offer lactose-free fluid milk.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 592 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 21, 2025 Ms. Tenney (for herself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania , Mr. Fitzgerald , Mr. Lawler , and Mr. Van Orden ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce A BILL To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act with respect to the types of milk offered under the school lunch program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting School Milk Choices Act of 2025 . 2. Types of milk offered under the school lunch program 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) by striking clause (ii); (2) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); and (3) by inserting after clause (i) the following: (ii) shall offer students flavored and unflavored fluid milk; and (iii) may offer students lactose-free fluid milk; and .