Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2021

Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2021

This bill revises requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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 only fat-free milk to be flavored. The bill removes these restrictions and instead permits schools to offer students whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, and fat-free flavored and unflavored milk.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1861 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1861

  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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2021

 Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. Delgado) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                               and Labor

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 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 to read as follows:
                    ``(A) In general.--Lunches served by schools 
                participating in the school lunch program under this 
                chapter--
                            ``(i) shall offer students a variety of 
                        fluid milk;
                            ``(ii) may offer students flavored and 
                        unflavored whole, reduced-fat, low-fat and fat-
                        free fluid milk and lactose-free fluid milk; 
                        and
                            ``(iii) shall provide a substitute for 
                        fluid milk for students whose disability 
                        restricts their diet, on receipt of a written 
                        statement from a licensed physician that 
                        identifies the disability that restricts the 
                        student's diet and that specifies the 
                        substitute for fluid milk.''.
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