Access to Donor Milk Act of 2023
This bill improves access to donor human milk for high-risk infants by supporting nonprofit milk banks. It amends the Child Nutrition Act to allow states to use funds for collecting, storing, and transferring unprocessed human milk to registered nonprofit milk banks, and creates $3 million in emergency grants for milk banks facing high demand or supply shortages. The bill also requires a public awareness campaign distributing educational materials to healthcare providers (like pediatricians) and WIC program participants, focusing on the safety and benefits of donor milk. These changes directly affect nonprofit milk banks, healthcare providers, and families of high-risk infants needing this resource.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 14, 2023
Last action Sep 15, 2023
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3
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Committee
2
Sep 15, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Sep 14, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Sep 14, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 16 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Chrissy Houlahan
DDemocratic
Co
Becca Balint
DDemocratic
Co
Bonnie Watson Coleman
DDemocratic
Co
Brian K. Fitzpatrick
RRepublican
Co
Darren Soto
DDemocratic
Co
Debbie Lesko
RRepublican
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Maria Elvira Salazar
RRepublican
Co
Maxwell Frost
DDemocratic
Co
Michael Lawler
RRepublican
Co
Mike Thompson
DDemocratic
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