[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 222 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 222

  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

                            January 23, 2025

Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Welch, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. 
 Grassley, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. King, Mr. Risch, Mr. 
  Crapo, and Ms. Ernst) 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 
2025''.

SEC. 2. ORGANIC OR NON-ORGANIC WHOLE MILK PERMISSIBLE.

    Section 9(a)(2) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking clauses (i) and (ii) and inserting 
                the following:
                            ``(i) shall offer students a variety of 
                        fluid milk;
                            ``(ii) may offer students flavored and 
                        unflavored organic or nonorganic whole, 
                        reduced-fat, low-fat, and fat-free fluid milk 
                        and lactose-free fluid milk;''; and
                    (B) in clause (iii), by striking ``physician'' and 
                inserting ``physician, parent, or legal guardian''; 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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