Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

This section would give the Act the short title 'Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025.'

This section would amend section 9(a)(2) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(2)), which sets the fluid milk rules for schools that take part in the school lunch program. It would replace clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) with new requirements: a school would have to offer students a variety of fluid milk, and a school would be allowed, but not required, to offer students flavored and unflavored fluid milk in organic or nonorganic whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, and fat-free versions, as well as lactose-free fluid milk. This section would also change clause (iii) of that subparagraph by striking the word 'physician' and inserting 'physician, parent, or legal guardian' in its place. The bill text does not include the rest of clause (iii) and does not say the change applies everywhere the word appears, so this rendering cannot state what clause (iii) requires; it can only say that wherever clause (iii) currently assigns a role to a physician at that point in the text, a parent or legal guardian would also be able to fill that role once this section takes effect. Finally, this section would add a new subparagraph (D) stating that milk fat in any fluid milk a school provides under subparagraph (A), including whole milk, would not count as saturated fat when checking whether a school meal meets the allowable average saturated fat content required under section 210.10 of title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation.