[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3125 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3125

           To reverse declining milk consumption in schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2019

Mr. Courtney (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Ms. Kuster of 
   New Hampshire, Mr. Welch, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Kind, Mr. 
Brindisi, Mr. Delgado, Mrs. Craig, Mr. Cox of California, Ms. DelBene, 
 Mr. Costa, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Collins of New York, Mr. Reschenthaler, 
Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Katko, Mr. David P. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Comer, Mr. 
 Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. Grothman, Ms. Finkenauer, Mr. O'Halleran, 
 Mr. Schrader, and Mr. Duffy) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
           To reverse declining milk consumption in 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 ``School Milk Nutrition Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. FLUID MILK.

    Section 9(a)(2) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A) 
inserting the following:
                    ``(A) In general.--Lunches served by schools 
                participating in the school lunch program under this 
                Act--
                            ``(i) shall offer students a variety of 
                        fluid milk. Such milk shall be consistent with 
                        the most recent Dietary Guidelines for 
                        Americans published under section 301 of the 
                        National Nutrition Monitoring and Related 
                        Research Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341);
                            ``(ii) may offer students flavored and 
                        unflavored fluid milk, including low-fat 
                        flavored milk and lactose-free fluid milk; and
                            ``(iii) shall provide a substitute for 
                        fluid milk for students whose disability 
                        restricts their diet, on receipt of a written 
                        statement from a licensed physician that 
                        identifies the disability that restricts the 
                        student's diet and that specifies the 
                        substitute for fluid milk.''.
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