Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023

Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023

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

In addition, schools currently participating in the program must provide meals that meet certain nutrition requirements; USDA regulations require that the average saturated fat content of the meals offered must be less than 10% of the total calories. Under the bill, fluid milk is excluded from the saturated fat content calculation; milk fat included in any fluid milk provided by the program must not be considered saturated fat for the purposes of measuring compliance with USDA regulations.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1957 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1957

  To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow 
  schools that participate in the school lunch program to serve whole 
                     milk, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 13, 2023

 Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Welch, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. 
  Risch, Ms. Collins, Mr. King, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. 
Crapo, and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following bill; which was read 
  twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
                                Forestry

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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 to serve whole 
                     milk, and for other purposes.

    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) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``milk.'' in the 
                first sentence and all that follows through ``(7 U.S.C. 
                5341);'' and inserting ``milk;''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii), by inserting ``whole, reduced-
                fat, low-fat, and fat-free'' after ``unflavored''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Saturated fat.--Milk fat included in any 
                fluid milk provided under subparagraph (A) shall not be 
                considered saturated fat for purposes of measuring 
                compliance with the allowable average saturated fat 
                content of a meal under section 210.10 of title 7, Code 
                of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).''.
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