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HR 649 Advanced toward a vote

Allows schools in the National School Lunch Program to offer organic or non-organic whole milk, and excludes milk fat from the saturated fat limit for school meals.

Official title: Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 23-JAN-2025
Referred 23-JAN-2025
Approved by committee 12-FEB-2025
Reported 05-JUN-2025
On the calendar 05-JUN-2025
Key points
  • Lets participating schools offer flavored or unflavored organic or non-organic whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, fat-free, and lactose-free fluid milk, while still requiring a variety of milk and substitutes for students with disabilities.
  • States that milk fat in fluid milk served under the program is not counted as saturated fat when measuring compliance with the average saturated fat limit for school meals.
  • Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit schools in the program from buying or offering milk produced by a China state-owned enterprise, and bars the Secretary from blocking the whole milk options.
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Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (23-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 05-JUN-2025).

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Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Agriculture and Food

Sponsor Glenn Thompson (R-PA) Cosponsors · 118
■ 80 R■ 38 D