The Senate
Agriculture Committee has approved a bill that reauthorizes and makes some
changes to child nutrition programs. The legislation, among other things:
·
Gives schools
two more years, until 2019, to reduce sodium levels in the meals they serve
students and allows them to serve at least one bread, pasta or grain product a
week that is not made up of at least 51% whole grains.
·
Increases support for summer feeding
programs and farm-to-school activities, including an annual $5 million increase
in grants for the farm-to-school program.
·
Leaves in place
standards in 2010 child nutrition legislation that removed soda and most junk
food from schools and upped servings of fruits and vegetables in school
lunches.
·
Strengthens the
summer meals program through reduced administrative burden and relief of
regulations that prevented local innovations.
The Committee
sent the bill to the Senate floor; a vote has not yet been scheduled.
Source: Senate
Agriculture Committee, 1/21/16, Child
Nutrition Bill
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