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This bill would change the school lunch program’s milk rules so that schools must offer both flavored and unflavored fluid milk to students. It also allows schools to offer lactose-free fluid milk. In simple terms, the bill is meant to give students more milk choices at school and make it easier for children who cannot drink regular milk to have an option.
- Schools participating in the lunch program would have to offer both flavored milk and plain milk.
- Schools would be allowed to offer lactose-free milk, but they would not be required to do so.
- The bill changes the federal school lunch law that sets nutrition and food options for school meals.
Official Summaries
Protecting School Milk Choices Act of 2025
This bill revises requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture.
Currently, schools participating in the program may provide flavored and unflavored fluid milk and lactose-free fluid milk.
Under the bill, these schools must provide students flavored and unflavored fluid milk. These schools maintain the discretion to offer lactose-free fluid milk.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 592 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 592
To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act with respect
to the types of milk offered under the school lunch program, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 21, 2025
Ms. Tenney (for herself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fitzgerald,
Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Van Orden) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
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A BILL
To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act with respect
to the types of milk offered under the school lunch program, 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 ``Protecting School Milk Choices Act
of 2025''.
SEC. 2. TYPES OF MILK OFFERED UNDER THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM.
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) by striking clause (ii);
(2) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); and
(3) by inserting after clause (i) the following:
``(ii) shall offer students flavored and
unflavored fluid milk; and
``(iii) may offer students lactose-free
fluid milk; and''.
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