H.R. 4713 — JOE Act

Jumpstarting Occupational-learning and Entrepreneurship Act or the JOE Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to exempt school-based enterprises that are managed as part of a school's curriculum from the nutrition standards for foods sold in schools that are not foods provided under the school lunch and breakfast programs.

Defines a "school-based enterprise" as an entrepreneurial operation in a school setting that:

provides goods or services to meet the needs of the market;
is managed and operated by students as a hands-on learning laboratory;
provides realistic and practical learning experiences that reinforce classroom instruction;
may sell to consumers through a permanent location, a mobile kiosk, or through Internet marketing; and
may sell products such as food and beverage items or provide services such as event catering.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
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[H.R. 4713 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4713

    To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to exempt school-based 
                 enterprises from nutrition standards.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2014

  Mr. Womack introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to exempt school-based 
                 enterprises from nutrition standards.

    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 ``Jumpstarting Occupational-learning 
and Entrepreneurship Act'' or the ``JOE Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF SCHOOL-BASED ENTERPRISES FROM NUTRITION STANDARDS.

    Section 10(b)(1) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1779(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of clause (i);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of clause 
                (ii)(IV) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) exempt from such nutrition 
                        standards school-based enterprises managed as 
                        part of a school's curriculum.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) School-based enterprise defined.--For 
                purposes of this subsection, the term `school-based 
                enterprise' means an entrepreneurial operation in a 
                school setting that--
                            ``(i) provides goods or services to meet 
                        the needs of the market;
                            ``(ii) is managed and operated by students 
                        enrolled in the school as a hands-on learning 
                        laboratory;
                            ``(iii) provides realistic and practical 
                        learning experiences that reinforce classroom 
                        instruction;
                            ``(iv) may sell to consumers through a 
                        permanent location, a mobile kiosk, or through 
                        Internet marketing; and
                            ``(v) may sell products such as food and 
                        beverage items, or provide services such as 
                        event catering.''.
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