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H.R. 5090: NEW Schools Act

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H.R. 5090: NEW Schools Act

111th Congress · introduced 2010-04-21 · Education · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2010-04-21 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

NEW Schools Act

Plain summary

Nutrition Education and Wellness in Schools Act or NEW Schools Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to replace the nutrition promotion program with a program that requires local educational agencies (LEAs) to ensure that their local wellness policies: (1) include goals for nutrition and physical education, physical activity, on-campus food marketing and advertising, and other school-based activities that promote nutrition and wellness throughout the extended school day; (2) include plans for implementing, and measuring the implementation of, such policies; (3) require reimbursable school meals to meet certain nutritional guidelines; and (4) require the nutritional guidelines for nonreimbursable foods and beverages sold in schools to be in compliance with standards established by the Secretary of Agriculture. Requires each LEA, within two years of this Act's enactment and every three years thereafter, to complete and disseminate an assessment of their local wellness policy. Directs each LEA to designate a standing Local Wellness Policy Committee made up of education, health, and nutrition stakeholders to foster the integration of a local wellness policy that meets this Act's requirements with other health-related activities in the LEA's schools and community. Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance and outreach to key state and local stakeholders to promote effective local wellness policies; and (2) prepare a report, in conjunction with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on the implementation, strength, and effectiveness of local wellness policies. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to replace the Team Nutrition Network program with The Wellness and Nutrition Network (TWNN) program providing grants to states to: (1) establish a comprehensive, integrated, and coordinated State Wellness and Nutrition Network; and (2) allocate grants to LEAs to promote and support healthy eating and physical activity programs, policies, or initiatives for children that participate in the child nutrition programs. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a comprehensive and integrated national nutrition promotion and education strategy as part of TWNN.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

NEW Schools Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2] · 16 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Gwen Moore (D-WI)

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Ballot initiative
A proposed law or constitutional amendment that citizens place on the ballot by gathering enough voter signatures, so voters decide it directly. About half the states allow some form of it.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong111-hr5090 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111