SLICE Act

School Lunch Improvements for Children's Education Act or SLICE Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to implement an interim or final rule regarding the school lunch and child nutrition programs that: (1) requires the crediting of tomato paste and puree as a vegetable serving based on the volume of tomato paste or puree served, (2) implements science-based sodium reduction targets, and (3) establishes a whole grain requirement.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5789 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5789

   To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to implement a certain 
  interim final or final rule regarding nutrition programs under the 
 Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition 
                              Act of 1966.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2012

 Mr. Polis (for himself, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Filner, and 
Mr. Carnahan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to implement a certain 
  interim final or final rule regarding nutrition programs under the 
 Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition 
                              Act of 1966.

    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 Lunch Improvements for 
Children's Education Act'' or the ``SLICE Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO IMPLEMENT A 
              CERTAIN INTERIM FINAL OR FINAL RULE.

    The Secretary of Agriculture may implement an interim final or 
final rule regarding nutrition programs under the Richard B. Russell 
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the Child 
Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) that--
            (1) requires crediting of tomato paste and puree based on 
        volume;
            (2) implements science-based sodium reduction targets; and
            (3) establishes a whole grain requirement.
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