[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1829 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1829

 To prohibit the purchase of foreign beef by a school participating in 
the school lunch, school breakfast, or child care food program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 4, 1996

 Mr. Pressler 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 prohibit the purchase of foreign beef by a school participating in 
the school lunch, school breakfast, or child care food program, 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. AMERICAN BEEF IN CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS.

    The National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 28. AMERICAN BEEF IN CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS.

    ``A school or service institution in the continental United States 
participating in the school lunch program, the school breakfast program 
under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773), or 
the child care food program under section 17 may not purchase beef or 
beef food-products produced outside the United States for use in 
carrying out the program.''.
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