The record

LegislationLegislation· Jan 2026
S 222 Signed into law

Sponsored by Roger Marshall (R)

Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

Allows schools to serve whole milk and expands nondairy milk options in school lunches.

Tradeoff

Gives schools flexibility to offer whole and reduced-fat milk to students. Excludes milk fat from saturated fat limits in school meal nutrition calculations.

What's in it

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No estimated cost to the federal budget over the 2025-2035 period.

This bill changes the types of milk schools can serve in the National School Lunch Program and excludes saturated fat in milk from meal calculations—rules changes with negligible federal enforcement cost because the policy's real impact falls on schools and does not trigger new federal spending or reimbursement changes.

S. 222, Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 · Sep 2025

The Senate passed this by on November 20, 2025. The House passed it by on December 15, 2025, and it was signed into law on January 14, 2026.

  1. Senate

    Introduced

    (Jan 23, 2025)

  2. Senate

    Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry(Jan 23, 2025)

  3. Senate

    The Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(Jun 3, 2025)

  4. Senate

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Nov 20, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. House

    Received from the Senate

    Received(Nov 20, 2025)

  6. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Dec 15, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  7. House

    Sent to the President

    (Jan 6, 2026)

  8. White House · Signature

    Signed

    Donald Trump (R)

  9. Enacted

    Became law(Jan 14, 2026)