Senate bill S. 1957, Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, gained two more cosponsors from Ohio and Kansas, totaling 13 sponsors to-date.
The identical bill authored by House Ag Chairman G.T. Thompson passed the U.S. House of Representatives 330-99 in December. The word is the Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow of Michigan needs convincing to bring the Senate companion bill to the floor. The best way to keep this bill moving is to gain more cosponsors. S. 1957 has 13 sponsors from 10 states so far. They include Republicans, Democrats and an Independent as follows: both Dr. Roger Marshall (prime sponsor) and Jerry Moran of Kansas, Peter Welch (prime cosponsor) of Vermont, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, both James Risch and Mike Crapo of Idaho, both Susan Collins and Angus King of Maine, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and J.D. Vance of Ohio.
Contact your Senators to cosponsor S. 1957 so schools will have the option to offer whole and 2% flavored and unflavored milk as choices for students during school, where they have two meals a day, five days a week, three-quarters of the year. Currently, the federal government requires schools to only offer 1% unflavored milk and fat-free flavored milk. This legislation also helps ensure USDA cannot end flavored milk at the elementary school level, which it has a draft proposal to do.
Find information that can be shared with policymakers at this link https://qrco.de/WholeMilk-Info.