S.Amdt. 4485

SA 4485. Mrs. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. MEAT OPTIONS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure
that, on a daily basis, members of the Armed Forces at
Department of Defense dining facilities are provided with
meat options that meet or exceed the nutritional standards
established in the most recent Dietary Guidelines for
Americans published under section 301 of the National
Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 (7
U.S.C. 5341).
(b) Prohibition.--None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended to
establish or enforce ``Meatless Monday'' or any other program
explicitly designed to reduce the amount of animal protein
that members of the Armed Forces voluntarily consume.
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