Healthy America Act
Latest action · Jul 21, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 24, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (the Act) to direct the Secretary to expand the fruit and vegetable school pilot program.
Amends the Act to direct the Secretary, in conjunction with the National 5 a Day for Better Health program, to carry out a Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids program to provide grants to school districts for innovative projects to increase the availability and consumption of fruits and vegetables.
Amends the Act to require States to ensure that meals in the summer food service program include fruits, vegetables, and juices.
Directs the Secretary to revise in specified ways the regulations relating to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
Amends the Farm and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to increase the minimum amount to be spent on the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools and service institutions.
Directs the Secretary to develop a fruit and vegetable research agenda that coordinates research between agencies of the Department of Agriculture.
Directs the Secretary to appoint a national 5 A Day for Better Health program coordinator and seven regional coordinators to promote the consumption of fruit and vegetables.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should establish partnerships with State and local organizations to improve access to and efficient distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables to schools and nutrition programs.
Cosponsors 24
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 24, 2003 to Oct 7, 2004; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Allen Boyd | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| R-CA | George Radanovich | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| R-FL | Katherine Harris | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| R-FL | Mark Foley | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| R-CA | Richard W. Pombo | Original | Jun 24, 2003 |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Jul 23, 2003 | |
| D-CA | Calvin M. Dooley | Sep 5, 2003 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Oct 2, 2003 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Oct 2, 2003 | |
| R-CA | Elton Gallegly | Oct 2, 2003 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Oct 2, 2003 | |
| R-CA | John T. Doolittle | Oct 2, 2003 | |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Oct 2, 2003 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Oct 2, 2003 | |
| D-GA | Denise L. Majette | Nov 4, 2003 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Nov 4, 2003 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Mar 9, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Mar 9, 2004 | |
| R-PA | Phil English | Mar 9, 2004 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Oct 7, 2004 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jun 24, 2003 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Jul 21, 2003 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jun 24, 2003 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Jul 14, 2003 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 21, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Jul 15, 2003Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Jul 14, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Jun 24, 2003Introduced in House
- Jun 24, 2003Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H1411 | Dennis A. Cardoza D-CA | Mar 24, 2004 |
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E2227 | Adam H. Putnam R-FL | Nov 4, 2003 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 108-36 | IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION TO FEDERAL CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS87 pages | Education and Workforce Committee | Oct 7, 2003 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To promote improved nutrition for needy Americans, including women, infants, children, and students, by revising and enhancing Federal nutrition programs to incorporate a greater role for fruits, vegetables, and 100 percent juice products.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Healthy America Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural research
- Agriculture and Food
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Beverages
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Defense procurement
- Department of Agriculture
- Diet
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Employee training
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Farm produce
- Federal aid to education
- Federal officials
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Food service
- Fruit
- Gardening
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government procurement
- Health
- Health education
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Nutrition
- Packaging
- Preventive medicine
- School health programs
- School lunch program
- School personnel
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Vegetables
- WIC program
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 24, 2003Introduced in House
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