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
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
- 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.
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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80 Republicans
- Mark Alford
- Rick W. Allen
- Don Bacon
- James R. Baird
- Troy Balderson
- Andy Barr
- Michael Baumgartner
- Cliff Bentz
- Mike Bost
- Robert P. Bresnahan
- Kat Cammack
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter
- John R. Carter
- Mike Collins
- James Comer
- Eric A. "Rick" Crawford
- Monica De La Cruz
- Troy Downing
- Ron Estes
- Randy Feenstra
- Brad Finstad
- Michelle Fischbach
- Scott Fitzgerald
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick
- Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann
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- Scott Franklin
- Russ Fulcher
- Sam Graves
- Glenn Grothman
- Michael Guest
- Mark Harris
- Ashley Hinson
- Erin Houchin
- Ronny Jackson
- Dusty Johnson
- John Joyce
- Mike Kelly
- Trent Kelly
- Doug LaMalfa
- Nicholas A. Langworthy
- Michael Lawler
- Julia Letlow
- Frank D. Lucas
- Ryan Mackenzie
- Celeste Maloy
- Tracey Mann
- Mark B. Messmer
- Daniel Meuser
- Mary E. Miller
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks
- John R. Moolenaar
- Barry Moore
- Tim Moore
- James C. Moylan
- Dan Newhouse
- Zachary Nunn
- Robert F. Onder
- Burgess Owens
- Scott Perry
- Guy Reschenthaler
- John W. Rose
- David Rouzer
- Michael A. Rulli
- Austin Scott
- Michael K. Simpson
- Adrian Smith
- Lloyd Smucker
- Elise M. Stefanik
- Bryan Steil
- David J. Taylor
- Claudia Tenney
- Thomas P. Tiffany
- David G. Valadao
- Derrick Van Orden
- Randy K. Weber, Sr.
- Tony Wied
- Joe Wilson
- Steve Womack
- Rudy Yakym
38 Democrats
- Becca Balint
- Sanford D. Bishop
- Nikki Budzinski
- Salud O. Carbajal
- Jim Costa
- Joe Courtney
- Angie Craig
- Henry Cuellar
- Sharice Davids
- Donald G. Davis
- Suzan K. DelBene
- Christopher R. Deluzio
- Jared F. Golden
- Josh Gottheimer
- Adam Gray
- Josh Harder
- Jahana Hayes
- Jonathan L. Jackson
- Marcy Kaptur
- Rick Larsen
- John W. Mannion
- April McClain Delaney
- Kristen McDonald Rivet
- Jimmy Panetta
- Chellie Pingree