[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1810 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1810

  To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow 
  schools that participate in the school lunch program to serve whole 
                     milk, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 12, 2019

Mr. Toomey (for himself and Mr. Johnson) 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 Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow 
  schools that participate in the school lunch program to serve whole 
                     milk, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Milk in Lunches for Kids Act of 
2019'' or the ``MILK Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. WHOLE MILK PERMISSIBLE.

    Section 9(a)(2)(A) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i), by striking ``milk.'' and all that 
        follows through ``(7 U.S.C. 5341)'' and inserting ``milk;''; 
        and
            (2) in clause (ii), by striking ``milk'' the first place it 
        appears and inserting ``milk, flavored and unflavored whole 
        milk, milk with 2 percent fat,''.

SEC. 3. HEALTHY MILK FAT.

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall revise section 210.10 of title 
7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), to exclude 
milk fat from the calculation of the average saturated fat content of a 
meal.
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