Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools that participate in the school lunch program under such Act to serve whole milk.
More subjectsShow fewer subjects
Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 111.
Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025
This bill revises requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Currently, schools participating in the program must provide milk that is consistent with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans; USDA regulations require milk to be fat-free or low-fat and allow milk to be flavored or unflavored. The bill modifies these restrictions and instead permits schools to offer students whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, and fat-free flavored and unflavored milk. The milk that is offered may be organic or nonorganic. Further, USDA may not prohibit a participating school from offering students any of these milk choices.
Further, schools currently must provide a substitute for fluid milk, on receipt of a written statement from a licensed physician, for students whose disability restricts their diet. Under the bill, a parent or legal guardian may also provide the written statement.
In addition, schools currently participating in the program must provide meals that meet certain nutrition requirements; USDA regulations require that the average saturated fat content of the meals offered must be less than 10% of the total calories. Under the bill, fluid milk is excluded from the saturated fat content calculation; milk fat included in any fluid milk provided by the program must not be considered saturated fat for the purposes of measuring compliance with USDA regulations.
Finally, the bill prohibits schools participating in the program from purchasing or offering milk produced by Chinese state-owned enterprises.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- Reported in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- EDGE DAIRY FARMER COOPERATIVE
- ETKA CONSULTING
- AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FED
- INTERNATIONAL DAIRY FOODS ASSOCIATION
- DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC.
- FARMERS EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 649: Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-649/
"H.R. 649: Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-649/.
H.R. 649, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-649/.
[H.R. 649: Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-649/)