US Congress House Bill 5504 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 87-1-1)
Status: Introduced on June 10 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-09-13 - 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. Robert Andrews [D-NJ]	Rep. Michael Arcuri [D-NY]	Rep. Shelley Berkley [D-NV]	Rep. Howard Berman [D-CA]
Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]	Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]
Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]
Rep. Mark Critz [D-PA]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Kathleen Dahlkemper [D-PA]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]
Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Eni Faleomavaega [D-AS]
Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]	Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]
Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D-TX]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Phil Hare [D-IL]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]	Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Jay Inslee [D-WA]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Dale Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-MI]	Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]
Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. Kendrick Meek [D-FL]	Rep. George Miller [D-CA]	Rep. Dennis Moore [D-KS]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. John Olver [D-MA]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Pedro Pierluisi [N-PR]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Todd Platts [R-PA]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]
Rep. Nick Rahall [D-WV]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Silvestre Reyes [D-TX]	Rep. Laura Richardson [D-CA]
Rep. Steven Rothman [D-NJ]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Joe Sestak [D-PA]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]
Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]
Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. John Tierney [D-MA]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]
Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]
Rep. David Wu [D-OR]

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	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/5504/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr5504/BILLS-111hr5504ih.pdf