119-hr2530

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Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act

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Introduced:
Apr 1, 2025
Policy Area:
Agriculture and Food

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Apr 1, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

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Introduced in House - Apr 1, 2025 00
<p><strong>Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Act</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Specifically, the minimum nutrition requirements under the program must prohibit ultraprocessed foods&nbsp;and foods containing (1)&nbsp;potassium bromate, (2) propylparaben, (3)&nbsp;titanium dioxide, (4) brominated vegetable oil, or (5) specific food dyes (e.g., yellow dyes 5 or 6).</p>

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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: House floor actions | Code: H11100
Apr 1, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: Intro-H
Apr 1, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 1000
Apr 1, 2025

Subjects (1)

Agriculture and Food (Policy Area)

Text Versions (1)

Introduced in House

Apr 1, 2025

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Length: 1,946 characters Version: Introduced in House Version Date: Apr 1, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 15, 2025 6:10 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2530 Introduced in House

(IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2530

To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit
the serving of certain foods under the school lunch program, and for
other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 1, 2025

Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Education and Workforce

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to prohibit
the serving of certain foods under the school lunch program, and for
other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.

This Act may be cited as the ``Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids
Act''.
SEC. 2.
Section 9 (a) (1) (A) of the Richard B.

(a)

(1)
(A) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch
Act is amended--

(1) in clause
(i) , by striking ``and'' at the end;

(2) in clause
(ii) , by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; and''; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:
``
(iii) shall prohibit--
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(I) ultraprocessed foods (as
described in group 4 of the NOVA
classification system); and
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(II) foods containing--
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(aa) potassium bromate;
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(bb) propylparaben;
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(cc) titanium dioxide;
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(dd) brominated vegetable
oil;
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(ee) yellow dye 5;
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(ff) yellow dye 6;
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(gg) blue dye 1;
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(hh) blue dye 2;
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(ii) green dye 3;
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(jj) red dye 3; or
``

(kk) red dye 40.''.
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