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Strengthening our Servicemembers with Milk Act

To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide fluid or powdered milk to members of the Armed Forces at dining facilities on military installations.

Introduced Jan 23, 2025

Latest action (Jan 23, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Referred to
Armed Services Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Defense
Legislative subjects (2)
Food supply, safety, and labelingMilitary personnel and dependents

Summary

This bill directs the Secretary of Defense to provide fluid or powdered milk to members of the Armed Forces at dining facilities on military installations. The milk may be offered in various options including unflavored, flavored, organic, non-organic, whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, fat-free, or lactose-free varieties. The bill prohibits the purchase of milk from entities owned or controlled by foreign adversaries, as determined by the Department of Commerce. The bill requires no new appropriations and applies to all military dining facilities.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
31 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 23, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. · house
  2. Jan 23, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • S 1071 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 4638 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 9770 — Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027 (shares 1 subject)
  • HR 7314 — Advancing Commonsense Policies Act (shares 1 subject)
  • HR 3159 — Improving SCRA Benefit Utilization Act (shares 1 subject)
  • SJRES 132 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to the withdrawal of the rule relating to "Examinations for Risks to Active-Duty Servicemembers and Their Covered Dependents". (shares 1 subject)
  • S 858 — Hershel ‘Woody' Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act (shares 1 subject)
  • HR 3377 — To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Capers, Jr., for acts of valor as a member of the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. (shares 1 subject)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 4742 — GIVE MILK Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • S 2507 — DAIRY PRIDE Act · Introduced Jul 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • S 2442 — O DAIRY Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HR 592 — Protecting School Milk Choices Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HR 4536 — Fit for Duty Act · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HR 5132 — Healthy Servicemembers Act · Introduced Sep 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%

Full text

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). <all>

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