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Please note only those bills that SNA is actively advocating for or against are indicated as "support" or "oppose".

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Download  a printable copy of child nutrition related bills introduced in the 117th Congress here.

Download a printable copy of child nutrition related bills introduced in the 116th Congress here. 

Bill listing does not necessarily imply endorsement by the School Nutrition Association.

 

117th Congress

  • Federal - S 1530

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make breakfasts and lunches free for all children, and for other purposes.

    Support

  • Federal - HR 3115

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make breakfasts and lunches free for all children, and for other purposes.

    Support

  • Federal - S 1590

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to enhance direct certification under the school lunch program.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 1421

    A bill to establish a program that enables college-bound residents of outlying areas of the United States to have greater choices among institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1831

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a permanent, nationwide electronic benefits transfer program for children during school closures, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3519

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a permanent, nationwide electronic benefits transfer program for children during school closures, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2896

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow certain institutions to use geographic preference for procurement of certain foods, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1401

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve nutritional and other program requirements relating to purchases of locally produced food.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1270

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the child and adult care food program.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1577

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ensure equity for America's children by providing access to summer meals.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1633

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a program for the procurement of domestically grown unprocessed fruits and vegetables to provide healthier school meals, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3230

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a program for the procurement of domestically grown unprocessed fruits and vegetables to provide healthier school meals, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2693

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require that only a school food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit school food service account on June 30th of the year preceding the previous school year shall be required to establish a price for paid lunches.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1170

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the efficiency of summer meals.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 876

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loan guarantees and grants to finance certain improvements to school lunch facilities, to train school food service personnel, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1421

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish the Food and Nutrition Education in Schools Pilot Program, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 783

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the efficiency of summer meals.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2772

    A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on sugary drinks, to dedicate the revenues from such tax to the prevention, treatment, and research of diet-related health conditions in disproportionately impacted populations, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 732

    A bill to strengthen Buy American requirements, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 465

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require a school food authority to make publicly available any waiver of the Buy American requirement, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 1768

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the farm to school program, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 1861

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools that participate in the school lunch program under such Act to serve whole milk.

    Monitoring

116th Congress

  • Federal - HR 6203

    A bill to provide for certain waivers of program requirements under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to appropriately address safety measures with respect to COVID-19, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 6201

    Families First Coronavirus Response Act

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5266

    A bill to provide for the enhancement of urban agriculture, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 6187

    A bill to allow the Secretary of Agriculture to grant certain waivers under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to address school closures due to COVID-19, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5950

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to grant eligibility to the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau for certain programs, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5892

    A bill to amend section 9A of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require that local school wellness policies include a requirement that students receive 50 hours of school nutrition education per school year.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 3293

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish the Food and Nutrition Education in Schools Pilot Program, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5861

    A bill to address the impact of climate change on agriculture, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5308

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B Russell National School Lunch Act to eliminate reduced price breakfasts and lunches and to require that the income guidelines for determining eligibility for free breakfasts and free lunches be 200 percent of the poverty-level, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5607

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a grant program to make grants to eligible local educational agencies to carry out food waste reduction programs, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5463

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require a study of the time and duration of school lunch periods, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 5283

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve direct certification, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 4755

    A bill to establish the Food Safety Administration to protect the public health by preventing foodborne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to foodborne illness and the chronic health outcomes associated with foodborne illnesses, improving the surveillance of foodborne pathogens (including foodborne pathogens identified as antibiotic resistant), and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 2752

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve program requirements, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 2692

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve direct certification, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 4684

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make breakfasts and lunches free for all children, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 2609

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make breakfasts and lunches free for all children, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 4541

    A bill to establish a grant program to provide certain eligible entities engaged in food recovery with grants to support certain costs.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 4265

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to remove certain limitations with respect to commodity assistance for school breakfast programs, and for other purposes.

    Support

  • Federal - HR 4259

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide categorical eligibility for free lunch and breakfast for certain children in kinship care, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 2358

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase the age of eligibility for children to receive benefits under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 2359

    A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require consideration of the assets of a household for broad-based categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 2331

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to clarify the availability and appropriateness of training for local food service personnel, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 4065

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a pilot program for serving meals in community colleges, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3667

    A bill to create a new Federal grant program that provides grants to State libraries to allow schools with summer lunch programs to keep their libraries open for student use during the summer months.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3562

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the farm to school program, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 2026

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the farm to school program, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1949

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loan guarantees and grants to finance certain improvements to school lunch facilities, to train school food service personnel, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3444

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loan guarantees and grants to finance certain improvements to school lunch facilities, to train school food service personnel, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1918

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require alternative options for summer food service program delivery.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1941

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a permanent, nationwide summer electronic benefits transfer for children program.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3378

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a permanent, nationwide summer electronic benefits transfer for children program.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1908

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the efficiency of summer meals.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1907

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the stigmatization of children who are unable to pay for school meals, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3366

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the stigmatization of children who are unable to pay for school meals, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3220

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow certain institutions to use geographic preference for procurement of certain foods, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3291

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to ensure that any food that may be served as part of a reimbursable meal under the school lunch program or the school breakfast program may be sold in schools, and for other purposes.

    Support

  • Federal - S 1810

    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.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1817

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve nutritional and other program requirements relating to purchases of locally produced food.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3125

    A bill to reverse declining milk consumption in schools.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3090

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to include ranching educational activities in the Farm to School Program.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3049

    A bill to ensure public disclosure of nutrition standards compliance by school food authorities, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2625

    A bill to amend section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to include eating disorders prevention within the nutrition education and obesity prevention grant program and the local wellness program; and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2818

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the efficiency of summer meals.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2651

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to clarify the availability and appropriateness of training for local food service personnel, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2688

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to expand the use of salad bars in schools.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2706

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to clarify that charitable organization officials may receive food donations from schools under the food donation program, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1119

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the stigmatization of children who are unable to pay for meals.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 771

    A bill to distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligible students and to repeal a certain rule relating to nutrition standards in schools.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 832

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools that participate in the school lunch program under such Act to serve whole milk.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 1066

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require a school food authority to make publicly available any waiver of the Buy American requirement, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 405

    A bill to require the publication of the annual reports required under the Presidential Orders on Buy American and Hire American and Strengthening Buy-American Preferences for Infrastructure Projects.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 1352

    A bill to provide for parity for Guam and the United States Virgin Islands under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2311

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the stigmatization of children who are unable to pay for meals.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1307

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve nutrition in tribal areas, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 1886

    A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to establish a grant program to appoint nutrition coordinators to oversee local school nutrition policies in local educational agencies, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 2494

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve nutrition in tribal areas, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 1887

    A bill to establish a National Institute of Nutrition within the National Institutes of Health, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1187

    A bill to prevent childhood exposure to chlorpyrifos through certain school meal programs.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - HR 3492

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make a permanent program for the procurement of unprocessed fruits and vegetables to provide healthier school meals, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

  • Federal - S 1952

    A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a program for the procurement of domestically grown unprocessed fruits and vegetables to provide healthier school meals, and for other purposes.

    Monitoring

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