S 2529
114th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Buy American requirements
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seafood
A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require that the Buy American purchase requirement for the school lunch program include fish harvested within United States waters, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 10, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Feb 10, 2016
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require a school food authority that purchases fish or fish products for a school lunch or breakfast program to purchase, to the maximum extent practicable, fish harvested within U.S. waters or tuna harvested by a U.S.-flag vessel.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
1