Congress 108 - HR 2225 - To authorize the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make grants to local educational agencies to support the purchase or lease and use of vending machines that offer for sale healthy foods and beverages in schools.

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Agriculture and Food Beverages Calcium Child health Child nutrition Diet Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Families Federal aid to education Health Iron Milk Minerals Nuts Oils and fats Proteins School districts Secondary education Seeds Sugar Vending machines Vitamins

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Authorizes the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for: (1) LEA purchase or lease of qualified vending machines to place in schools for student use; and (2) offsetting of any loss of LEA revenue resulting from using qualified vending machines which offer only healthy foods and beverages for sale.

Requires an LEA, as a condition for receiving such a grant, to agree to: (1) remove any vending machines that sell foods and beverages of minimal nutritional value from each elementary or secondary school where qualified vending machines will be placed using the grant funds; and (2) use only qualified vending machines in such school for a period prescribed by the Director.

Limits maximum portion sizes of food and beverages offered for sale in qualified vending machines.

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Jun 20, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jun 2, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 22, 2003

Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 22, 2003

Introduced in House

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