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S. 1736 119th Congress Senate

Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to clarify the availability and appropriateness of training for local food service personnel, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 13, 2025 Introduced by: Patty Murray Democratic · Washington See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food
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May 13, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
May 13, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act of 2025 

This bill adds requirements regarding the availability of training that the Department of Agriculture provides under current law for local food service personnel in schools.  

The training must be scheduled during regular, paid working hours; provided at no cost to food service personnel; offered in-person whenever appropriate; and incorporate experiential learning.

If the training is scheduled outside of working hours, food service personnel must be informed about the necessity of scheduling the program, consulted to schedule the program, and compensated for attending the program. Personnel may not be penalized for failing to attend a program outside of working hours.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 3367 Identical bill Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act of 2025
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Coons, Christopher A.
Delaware · Feb 26, 2026
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Luján, Ben Ray
New Mexico · Oct 28, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1736: Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1736/
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"S. 1736: Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1736/.
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S. 1736, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1736/.
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