Contact Congress about H.R. 649: Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

Schools could offer whole milk, including flavored whole milk, in federal lunch programs. The bill also changes how milk fat counts under meal rules and bans milk from China state-owned companies.

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Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 is a House bill waiting for floor action. The latest recorded action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 111.

Latest action on H.R. 649: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 111.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects students who drink milk at school, schools that run federal lunch programs, and dairy suppliers. Students could see more milk choices in the cafeteria. Schools would have more menu options, but they may also have more buying, storage, and tracking work. Dairy producers and milk sellers could see demand shift toward whole or flavored milk. China state-owned milk companies would be barred from selling milk into these school programs.

Why this matters: This bill could change what students are offered with school lunch each day. Schools would get more freedom to serve milk that students may prefer, including whole and flavored milk. That could affect what students drink, how much milk gets thrown away, and how schools plan meals. It also changes one nutrition rule by excluding milk fat from the saturated fat check. The health, cost, and student choice effects are not spelled out in the bill and would depend on how schools use the new options.

Key provisions in H.R. 649

• Schools in the federal school lunch program could offer plain or flavored milk in whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, fat-free, and lactose-free forms. The milk could be organic or non-organic.
• Schools would still need to give students a variety of fluid milk choices.
• Schools would have to give a milk substitute to a student whose disability limits their diet. A licensed doctor, parent, or legal guardian would need to send a written statement that explains the disability and names the substitute.
• Milk fat from any milk allowed by the bill would not count as saturated fat when schools are checked under the federal school meal saturated fat rule, now listed at 7 C.F.R. § 210.10 or any later replacement rule.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary would have to stop schools from buying or serving milk made by a China state-owned company.

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Schools could offer whole milk, including flavored whole milk, in federal lunch programs. The bill also changes how milk fat counts under meal rules and bans milk from China state-owned companies.

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