[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3022 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3022

  To protect children's health by ensuring that chickens and chicken 
products purchased for national school nutrition programs have not been 
            fed or administered fluoroquinolone antibiotics.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 5, 2003

Mr. Brown of Ohio introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
              the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To protect children's health by ensuring that chickens and chicken 
products purchased for national school nutrition programs have not been 
            fed or administered fluoroquinolone antibiotics.

    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 referred to as the ``School Nutrition Antibiotic 
Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE PURCHASE OF CHICKENS AND CHICKEN PRODUCTS 
              FED OR ADMINISTERED FLUOROQUINOLONES.

    (a) School Lunch and Breakfast Programs.--Section 14(d) of the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1762a(d)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'';
            (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding after paragraph (5) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(6) ensure that chickens and chicken products purchased 
        for such programs have not been fed or administered a 
        fluoroquinolone.''.
    (b) Summer Food Service Program for Children.--Section 13 of the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1761) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(r) In providing assistance under this section, the Secretary 
shall establish procedures which will ensure that chickens and chicken 
products purchased for such programs have not been fed or administered 
a fluoroquinolone.''.
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