S.Amdt. 4535

SA 4535. 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.--Dining facilities of the Department of
Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, in the case
of the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in
the Navy, shall provide members of the Armed Forces on a
daily basis 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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