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H.R. 8578119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Apr 29, 2026Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: To amend the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 to codify the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030, issued jointly by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.
Introduced:
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Congress would need to approve any future Dietary Guidelines before they take effect, instead of leaving that to federal agencies alone.
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This bill changes who has the final say over the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Right now, two cabinet secretaries can update those guidelines on their own every five years. Under this bill, they can still write and propose new guidelines, but Congress would have to pass a law to make them official. The bill also locks in the 2025-2030 guidelines as the current standard until any new ones go through this process.
This affects the agencies that write the guidelines and the lawmakers who would now vote on them. It also affects the roughly 40 million Americans in federal food programs like school lunches, SNAP, and WIC, since those programs must follow the Dietary Guidelines.
Because federal food programs are required to align with the Dietary Guidelines, any delay or disagreement in Congress over approving new guidelines could affect how those programs operate. The 2025-2030 guidelines would stay in place until Congress acts.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.