[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 998 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 998

 To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to prohibit the donation or 
  service without charge of competitive foods of minimal nutritional 
value in schools participating in Federal meal service programs before 
            the end of the last lunch period of the schools.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 11, 1999

Mr. Leahy (for himself, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Feingold, and Mr. 
Kohl) 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 Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to prohibit the donation or 
  service without charge of competitive foods of minimal nutritional 
value in schools participating in Federal meal service programs before 
            the end of the last lunch period of the schools.

    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 ``Better Nutrition for School Children 
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to close the loophole that allows competitive foods of 
        minimum nutritional value that cannot be sold during meals in 
        schools participating in the school breakfast and lunch 
        programs to instead be donated or served without charge to 
        students during or before breakfast or lunch;
            (2) to protect 1 of the major purposes of the Child 
        Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) and the National 
        School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), which is to promote 
        better nutrition among school children participating in the 
        school breakfast and lunch programs; and
            (3) to promote better nutritional habits among school 
        children and improve the health of school children 
        participating in the school breakfast and lunch programs.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON DONATION OR SERVICE WITHOUT CHARGE OF 
              COMPETITIVE FOODS OF MINIMAL NUTRITIONAL VALUE.

    Section 10 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1779) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``(b) The'' and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Donation or Service Without Charge of Competitive Foods of 
Minimal Nutritional Value.--
            ``(1) Sales.--The''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Donations or service without charge.--The regulations 
        shall prohibit the donation or service without charge of 
        competitive foods not approved by the Secretary under paragraph 
        (1) in a school participating in a meal service program 
        authorized under this Act or the National School Lunch Act (42 
        U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) before the end of the last lunch period of 
        the school.''.
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