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Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act
To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the serving of certain foods under the school lunch program, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish new restrictions on foods served in federally funded school lunch programs. Schools would be prohibited from serving ultraprocessed foods as defined by the NOVA food classification system, group 4. The bill also bans foods containing specific additives and artificial dyes, including potassium bromate, propylparaben, titanium dioxide, brominated vegetable oil, and certain approved food colorings (yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1, blue 2, green 3, red 3, and red dye 40). These prohibitions would apply to all meals served under the national school lunch program. The changes are presented as amendments to the nutritional and other requirements that schools must meet to participate in the federal lunch program.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3] (R-UT)
Actions (2)
- Apr 1, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Apr 1, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 1, 2025
Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit the serving of certain foods 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 “Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act”.
SEC. 2. NUTRITIONAL AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS.
Section 9(a)(1)(A) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act is amended—
(1) in clause (i), by striking “and” at the end;
(2) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(iii) shall prohibit—
“(I) ultraprocessed foods (as described in group 4 of the NOVA classification system); and
“(II) foods containing— “(aa) potassium bromate; “(bb) propylparaben;
“(cc) titanium dioxide;
“(dd) brominated vegetable oil; “(ee) yellow dye 5; “(ff) yellow dye 6; “(gg) blue dye 1; “(hh) blue dye 2;
“(ii) green dye 3; “(jj) red dye 3; or “(kk) red dye 40.”. <all>
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