Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act has not moved since its introduction on Apr 1, 2025, with no cosponsors
IntroducedApr 1, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 73 words.
Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act This bill prohibits school lunches served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program from including ultraprocessed foods and foods that contain specific additives, including several food dyes. Specifically, the minimum nutrition requirements under the program must prohibit ultraprocessed foods and foods containing (1) potassium bromate, (2) propylparaben, (3) titanium dioxide, (4) brominated vegetable oil, or (5) specific food dyes (e.g., yellow dyes 5 or 6).
Context
- Committees
- House Education and Workforce Committee
- Policy area
- Agriculture and Food: 14 of 2,036 bills became law, 113th–118th (0.7%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 34 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 132 words
- Latest action
- Apr 1, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
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Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]