PRINTER'S NO. 835
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
140
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY BULLOCK, READSHAW, FREEMAN, QUIGLEY, MURT,
O'BRIEN, KINSEY, TOOHIL, LONGIETTI, YOUNGBLOOD, CALTAGIRONE,
WATSON, J. HARRIS, MILLARD, DUSH, SONNEY, V. BROWN,
SCHLOSSBERG, MARSICO, DiGIROLAMO, McNEILL, ROEBUCK, D. COSTA
AND NEILSON, MARCH 9, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
MARCH 9, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the week of March 6 through 10, 2017, as "National
School Breakfast Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, "National School Breakfast Week" is observed
annually to increase student participation in the child
nutrition initiative known as the School Breakfast Program; and
WHEREAS, Administered federally by the Food and Nutrition
Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the
School Breakfast Program provides healthy breakfast options in
age-appropriate serving sizes to more than 8.5 million
qualifying children each school day; and
WHEREAS, Any public school, intermediate unit, charter
school, area vocational-technical school or career technology
school, public residential child-care institution, tax-exempt
nonpublic school or residential child-care institution may apply
to be a School Breakfast Program sponsor; and
WHEREAS, The Division of Food and Nutrition of the
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