3.0.0 1952 2022-11-01T13:50:55Z 2022-11-01T13:50:55Z Senate S 2019-06-25 116 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-25T14:56:22Z Local School Foods Expansion Act of 2019 116 3492 HR 2019-06-25 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS 2019-06-25 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2019-06-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR N Agriculture and Food Child health Congressional oversight Elementary and secondary education Food assistance and relief Fruit and vegetables Nutrition and diet Performance measurement Public contracts and procurement State and local government operations Agriculture and Food 00 2019-06-25 Introduced in Senate 2020-05-04T19:20:49Z Local School Foods Expansion Act of 2019

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to make permanent, and expand to at least 15 states, the program to provide more flexibility for states participating in the National School Lunch Program to purchase domestically grown unprocessed fruits and vegetables. The bill also provides additional mandatory funding for the program.

]]> Local School Foods Expansion Act of 2019 Display Title Local School Foods Expansion Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Local School Foods Expansion Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a program for the procurement of domestically grown unprocessed fruits and vegetables to provide healthier school meals, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1952is/xml/BILLS-116s1952is.xml 2019-06-25 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.