Bill Details
HR.648 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-23 - Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Introduced Date
2025-01-23
Policy Area
Armed Forces and National Security
Committees
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Cosponsors
View cosponsors (20)
- Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-Pennsylvania-14]
- Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-Pennsylvania-15]
- Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-Mississippi-1]
- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-Nebraska-2]
- Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-California-1]
- Rep. Messmer, Mark B. [R-Indiana-8]
- Rep. Steil, Bryan [R-Wisconsin-1]
- Rep. Bishop, Sanford D. [D-Georgia-2]
- Rep. Miller, Carol D. [R-West Virginia-1]
- Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-Louisiana-3]
- Rep. Clyde, Andrew S. [R-Georgia-9]
- Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-Florida-13]
- Rep. Miller, Mary E. [R-Illinois-15]
- Rep. Self, Keith [R-Texas-3]
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-Arizona-9]
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-New York-17]
- Rep. Moskowitz, Jared [D-Florida-23]
- Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-Minnesota-1]
- Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-New York-11]
- Rep. Scott, Austin [R-Georgia-8]
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This bill would require the Defense Department to make milk available to service members at dining facilities on military bases. The milk could be fluid or powdered and come in different types, such as plain or flavored, whole or low-fat, lactose-free, organic, and fat-free. The bill is meant to make milk easier to get for members of the Armed Forces when they eat on base. It also says the military cannot buy this milk from a company owned or controlled by a foreign adversary.
- Milk would have to be offered in several forms, including unflavored, flavored, whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, fat-free, lactose-free, organic, and non-organic.
- The Defense Department would be barred from buying the milk from any business linked to a foreign adversary, as defined by federal rules.
Official Summaries
Strengthening our Servicemembers with Milk Act
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide varieties of fluid or powdered milk (e.g., unflavored or organic) to members of the Armed Forces at dining facilities on military installations. Under the bill, DOD is prohibited from purchasing such milk from an entity owned or controlled by a foreign adversary.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 648 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 648
To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide fluid or powdered milk to
members of the Armed Forces at dining facilities on military
installations.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 23, 2025
Mr. Van Orden (for himself, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Thompson of
Pennsylvania, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Bacon, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr.
Messmer, Mr. Steil, Mr. Bishop, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr.
Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Clyde, Mrs. Luna, Mrs. Miller of Illinois,
Mr. Self, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr. Finstad, Ms.
Malliotakis, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Grothman, Mr.
Downing, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. Meuser, and Mrs. Cammack) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide fluid or powdered milk to
members of the Armed Forces at dining facilities on military
installations.
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 ``Strengthening our Servicemembers
with Milk Act''.
SEC. 2. PROVISION OF MILK TO MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AT DINING
FACILITIES ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall provide fluid or
powdered milk to members of the Armed Forces at dining facilities on
military installations, in varieties that may include--
(1) unflavored;
(2) flavored;
(3) organic;
(4) non-organic;
(5) whole;
(6) reduced-fat;
(7) low-fat;
(8) fat-free;
(9) lactose-free; or
(10) any combination thereof.
(b) Prohibition.--The Secretary may not, to carry out this section,
purchase fluid or powdered milk from an entity owned or controlled by a
foreign adversary, as determined by the Secretary of Commerce under
section 7.4 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor
regulation).
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