School Milk Nutrition Act of 2021

School Milk Nutrition Act of 2021

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

The bill permits schools participating in the program to offer students low-fat flavored milk.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4635 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4635

           To reverse declining milk consumption in schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2021

Mr. Courtney (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bacon, Mr. 
Bishop of Georgia, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Correa, Mr. Costa, 
  Ms. Craig, Mr. Cuellar, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Delgado, Mr. Fulcher, Mrs. 
Hayes, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Jacobs of New York, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, 
  Mr. Lamb, Mr. Mann, Mr. Kind, Ms. Kuster, Ms. Meng, Mr. Meuser, Mr. 
O'Halleran, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Schrader, Mr. 
 David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Slotkin, Mr. Smucker, Ms. Spanberger, Ms. 
  Stefanik, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Van 
Drew, and Mr. Welch) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
           To reverse declining milk consumption in schools.

    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 ``School Milk Nutrition Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. FLUID MILK.

    Section 9(a)(2) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A) 
inserting the following:
                    ``(A) In general.--Lunches served by schools 
                participating in the school lunch program under this 
                Act--
                            ``(i) shall offer students a variety of 
                        fluid milk. 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);
                            ``(ii) may offer students flavored and 
                        unflavored fluid milk, including low-fat 
                        flavored 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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