A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve nutritional and other program requirements relating to purchases of locally produced food.
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Committee
Latest Action · June 12, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Kids Eat Local Act of 2019
This bill modifies Department of Agriculture requirements for the national school food programs relating to the purchases of locally produced food.
The bill allows institutions participating in the school food programs to use locally grown, locally raised, or locally caught as a product specification in food procurement requests.
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