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118th Congress(2023-2024)
Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023
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H. R. 1147 (Introduced-in-House)


118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1147


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.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 21, 2023

Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania (for himself, Ms. Schrier, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Balderson, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Trone, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Meuser, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Smucker, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Banks, Mr. Baird, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Perry, Mr. Simpson, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Mann, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Ms. Slotkin, Mr. Steil, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Ryan, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Barr, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Feenstra, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Cline) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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 2023”.

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 Act—

“(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.”.

SEC. 3. Healthy milk fat.

The Secretary of Agriculture shall revise section 210.10 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), to increase the allowable average saturated fat content of a meal to account for milk fat included in whole milk.