3.0.0 100 2023-01-11T20:06:50Z 2023-01-11T20:06:50Z Senate S S 2007-01-04 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-01-04T22:53:53Z 2007-01-04 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2007-01-04 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S109-110) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-01-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA N Families Administrative procedure Agriculture and Food Charitable contributions Child health Child nutrition Congress Congressional reporting requirements Curricula Department of Agriculture Diet Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Equipment and supplies Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Foundations Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Health Health education Higher education Income tax Law Nurses Organic farming Physical education and training Physical fitness Scholarships School health programs School lunch program School personnel Social Welfare Sports and Recreation Sports facilities Standards Student loan funds Tax deductions Taxation Teacher education Families 00 2007-01-04 Introduced in Senate 2007-02-02T22:37:04Z Healthy Students Act of 2007 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a Commission to Improve School Meals composed of nutrition and children's health experts tasked with developing new nutritional standards for the School Lunch, Summer Food Service, Child and Adult Care Food, and School Breakfast programs. Requires such standards to ban foods of minimal nutritional value. Provides for the adjustment of program payment rates to compensate for compliance with such standards.

Repeals the current requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) issue guidance to states and school food authorities to increase the consumption of foods and food ingredients recommended in the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Requires the Secretary to establish a pilot program providing grants to school districts or nonprofit organizations for use in promoting healthy food alternatives under the School Lunch and School Breakfast programs.

Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to elementary and secondary schools for Healthy Hour pilot programs which increase each school day by an hour that is exclusively devoted to physical activity.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a student loan forgiveness program for nurses who agree to employment as full-time nurses in elementary or secondary schools for three complete school years.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow corporations a tax deduction for the charitable contribution to a private foundation of exercise or gymnasium equipment for use by elementary and secondary school students.

]]> Healthy Students Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to encourage the health of children in schools by promoting better nutrition and increased physical activity, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Healthy Students Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Healthy Students Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-01-04T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s100is/xml/BILLS-110s100is.xml 2007-01-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.