US Congress House Bill 5504 (Prior Session Legislation)

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September 13 2010 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise the school lunch and breakfast programs, the summer food service program, the child and adult care food program (CACFP), and the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC program). Reauthorizes appropriations for such programs through FY2015. Includes among such revisions: (1) encouraging the direct certification of children who receive other public assistance as eligible for free meals under the school lunch and breakfast programs; (2) establishing new mechanisms by which schools or local educational agencies (LEAs) with very high proportions of low-income children can receive federal reimbursement for free or reduced price meals under such programs without collecting individual paper applications from households; (3) establishing a program awarding competitive grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to LEAs to establish or expand the school breakfast program at low-income schools; (4) expanding the access of low-income rural areas to the summer food service program; (5) requiring updates to meal patterns and nutrition standards for the school lunch and breakfast programs based on recommendations made by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS); (6) requiring the establishment of science-based nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools outside the school lunch and breakfast programs; (7) requiring LEAs participating in the school lunch and breakfast programs to establish local school wellness policies for their schools that include goals for nutrition promotion and education, physical activity and education, and other school-based activities that promote student wellness; (8) requiring reimbursable meals and snacks provided under the CACFP to meet the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans and certain authoritative scientific recommendations; (9) encouraging WIC program participants to breastfeed; and (10) requiring WIC electronic benefit transfer (EBT) systems to be implemented nationwide by October 1, 2020.

Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act

Rep Lofgren, Zoe	Rep Polis, Jared	Rep Reyes, Silvestre	Rep Richardson, Laura
Rep Rothman, Steven R.	Rep Ryan, Tim	Rep Schiff, Adam B.	Rep Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
Rep Sestak, Joe	Rep Shea-Porter, Carol	Rep Pingree, Chellie	Rep Pierluisi, Pedro R.
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B.	Rep McCarthy, Carolyn	Rep McCollum, Betty	Rep Meek, Kendrick B.
Rep Moore, Dennis	Rep Moore, Gwen	Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes	Rep Olver, John W.
Rep Payne, Donald M.	Rep Sires, Albio	Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh	Rep Inslee, Jay
Rep Napolitano, Grace F.	Rep Chu, Judy	Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F.H.	Rep Crowley, Joseph
Rep Rahall, Nick J., II	Rep Garamendi, John	Rep Deutch, Theodore E.	Rep Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho
Rep Tonko, Paul D.	Rep Platts, Todd Russell	Rep Speier, Jackie	Rep Thompson, Bennie G.
Rep Tierney, John F.	Rep Titus, Dina	Rep Van Hollen, Chris	Rep Woolsey, Lynn C.
Rep Wu, David	Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C.	Rep McGovern, James P.	Rep Critz, Mark S.
Rep Loebsack, David	Rep Miller, George	Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.	Rep Sherman, Brad
Rep Andrews, Robert E.	Rep Arcuri, Michael A.	Rep Berkley, Shelley	Rep Berman, Howard L.
Rep Bishop, Timothy H.	Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z.	Rep Brady, Robert A.	Rep Matsui, Doris O.
Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr.	Rep Rangel, Charles B.	Rep Towns, Edolphus	Rep Waxman, Henry A.
Rep Braley, Bruce L.	Rep Capps, Lois	Rep Castor, Kathy	Rep Dahlkemper, Kathleen A.
Rep Eshoo, Anna G.	Rep Hinojosa, Ruben	Rep Clarke, Yvette D.	Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy
Rep Hare, Phil	Rep Hastings, Alcee L.	Rep Heinrich, Martin	Rep Hinchey, Maurice D.
Rep Hirono, Mazie K.	Rep Holt, Rush D.	Rep Honda, Michael M.	Rep Kildee, Dale E.
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J.	Rep Grijalva, Raul M.	Rep Green, Al	Rep Cohen, Steve
Rep Conyers, John, Jr.	Rep Courtney, Joe	Rep Davis, Susan A.	Rep Ellison, Keith
Rep Fattah, Chaka	Rep Filner, Bob	Rep Fudge, Marcia L.	Rep Gonzalez, Charles A.
Rep Langevin, James R.

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-09-13		Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
2010-07-15		Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 13.
2010-07-15		Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2010-07-14		Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2010-07-01		Committee Hearings Held.
2010-06-10		Referred to House Budget
2010-06-10		Referred to House Education and Labor
2010-06-10		Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

SB3307 (Related) 2010-12-13 - Became Public Law No: 111-296.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HN05504:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr5504ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr5504ih.pdf