Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act

Bill: 119-hr-2530
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2025-04-01
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-04-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits school lunches served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program from including ultraprocessed foods and foods that contain specific additives, including several food dyes.</p><p>Specifically, the minimum nutrition requirements under the program must prohibit ultraprocessed foods&nbsp;and foods containing (1)&nbsp;potassium bromate, (2) propylparaben, (3)&nbsp;titanium dioxide, (4) brominated vegetable oil, or (5) specific food dyes (e.g., yellow dyes 5 or 6).</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2530 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 1, 2025 Mr. Kennedy of Utah 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 to prohibit the serving of certain foods under the school lunch program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act . 2. Nutritional and other requirements Section 9(a)(1)(A) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act is amended— (1) in clause (i), by striking and at the end; (2) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (iii) shall prohibit— (I) ultraprocessed foods (as described in group 4 of the NOVA classification system); and (II) foods containing— (aa) potassium bromate; (bb) propylparaben; (cc) titanium dioxide; (dd) brominated vegetable oil; (ee) yellow dye 5; (ff) yellow dye 6; (gg) blue dye 1; (hh) blue dye 2; (ii) green dye 3; (jj) red dye 3; or (kk) red dye 40. .