3.0.0 2641 2023-01-11T13:39:43Z 2023-01-11T13:39:43Z Senate S 2018-04-10 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-04-10T21:10:55Z American Food for American Schools Act of 2017 115 1241 HR 2017-02-28 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Related bill CRS 2018-04-10 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2018-04-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001198 Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] Dan Sullivan R AK N C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA 2018-04-10 True Agriculture and Food Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Agricultural trade Buy American requirements Elementary and secondary education Food assistance and relief Food industry and services Government information and archives Agriculture and Food 00 2018-04-10 Introduced in Senate 2018-06-27T12:20:31Z American Food for American Schools Act of 2018

This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require school food authorities (SFAs) to request a waiver from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to purchase foreign commodities or products for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). SFAs may purchase foreign commodities or products without a waiver if the commodities or products are not produced or available domestically.

(Under current law, Buy American provisions require SFAs to purchase, to the maximum extent practicable, domestic commodities or products for the NSLP. There are limited exceptions which permit the purchase of foreign products in circumstances when using domestic products is truly not practicable. If an SFA uses an exception, there is no requirement to request a waiver to purchase a foreign product or commodity, but the SFA must keep documentation justifying the exception.)

USDA may not grant a waiver for an SFA to purchase foreign commodities or products unless: (1) the commodities or products are not produced domestically in sufficient amounts or of satisfactory quality, (2) the domestic commodities or products would be significantly higher in price than foreign commodities or products, and (3) the SFA agrees to make the waiver publicly available on its website and email a notification of the waiver to parents or guardians of students who will be served the foreign commodity or product purchased pursuant to the waiver.

]]> American Food for American Schools Act of 2018 Display Title American Food for American Schools Act of 2018 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the requirement to purchase domestic commodities or products, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced American Food for American Schools Act of 2018 Introduced in Senate 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2641is/xml/BILLS-115s2641is.xml 2018-04-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 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.