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American Food for American Schools Act of 2018
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American Food for American Schools Act of 201 8 This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require school food authorities (SFAs) to request a waiver from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to purchase foreign commodities or products for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). SFAs may purchase foreign commodities or products without a waiver if the commodities or products are not produced or available domestically. (Under current law, Buy American provisions require SFAs to purchase, to the maximum extent practicable, domestic commodities or products for the NSLP. There are limited exceptions which permit the purchase of foreign products in circumstances when using domestic products is truly not practicable. If an SFA uses an exception, there is no requirement to request a waiver to purchase a foreign product or commodity, but the SFA must keep documentation justifying the exception.) USDA may not grant a waiver for an SFA to purchase foreign commodities or products unless: (1) the commodities or products are not produced domestically in sufficient amounts or of satisfactory quality, (2) the domestic commodities or products would be significantly higher in price than foreign commodities or products, and (3) the SFA agrees to make the waiver publicly available on its website and email a notification of the waiver to parents or guardians of students who will be served the foreign commodity or product purchased pursuant to the waiver.
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2018 · fourth_quarter · Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Buy America provisions of the William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives Implementation by USDA of the Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard; provisions impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Issues relating to the Richard B. Russell Child Nutrition Act; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives Implementation by FDA of the Nutrition Facts Panel rule; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives H.R. 1241, the American Foods for American Schools Act; provisions impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives H.R. 6022; S. 3019 Accurate Labels Act; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Issues relating to DoD food ingredient prohibitions issued by the Defense Logistics Agency S. 2641 American Food for American Schools Act of 2018; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Introduced in Senate
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Client expense: $348,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2018 · third_quarter · Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Buy America provisions of the William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives Implementation by USDA of the Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard; provisions impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Issues relating to the Richard B. Russell Child Nutrition Act; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives Implementation by FDA of the Nutrition Facts Panel rule; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives H.R. 1241, the American Foods for American Schools Act; provisions impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives H.R. 6022; S. 3019 Accurate Labels Act; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Issues relating to DoD food ingredient prohibitions issued by the Defense Logistics Agency S. 2641 American Food for American Schools Act of 2018; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives
Client expense: $287,500 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2018 · second_quarter · Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Buy America provisions of the William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives Implementation by USDA of the Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard; provisions impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Issues relating to the Richard B. Russell Child Nutrition Act; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives Implementation by FDA of the Nutrition Facts Panel rule; provisions relating to agriculture and farmer cooperatives H.R. 1241, the American Foods for American Schools Act; provisions impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives H.R. 6022; S. 3019 Accurate Labels Act; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives Issues relating to DoD food ingredient prohibitions issued by the Defense Logistics Agency S. 2641 American Food for American Schools Act of 2018; issues impacting agriculture and farmer cooperatives
Client expense: $349,100 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)