[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2243 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2243

  To amend the fresh fruit and vegetable program under the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act to include canned, dried, frozen, or 
                     pureed fruits and vegetables.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 5, 2015

  Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Coats, and Ms. Baldwin) 
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 fresh fruit and vegetable program under the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act to include canned, dried, frozen, or 
                     pureed fruits and vegetables.

    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 ``Fruit and Vegetable Access for 
Children Act''.

SEC. 2. FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROGRAM.

    Section 19 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 
U.S.C. 1769a) is amended by inserting ``, canned, dried, frozen, or 
pureed'' after ``fresh'' each place it appears in each of subsections 
(a), (b), and (e).
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