Access to Donor Milk Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8545 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8545 To protect and expand access to pasteurized, donor human milk, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 28, 2026 Ms. Houlahan (for herself, Mrs. Bice, and Ms. Salazar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To protect and expand access to pasteurized, donor human milk, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Access to Donor Milk Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Donor human milk.--The term ``donor human milk'' means human milk that is collected, pasteurized, and dispensed without additives. (2) Donor human milk-derived product.--The term ``donor human milk-derived product'' means a product made predominantly from donor human milk-- (A) from which one or more components has been removed in order to produce a specialty nutritional product; or (B) to which one or more human milk or non-human milk components has been added to produce such a product. (3) Donor human milk bank.--The term ``donor human milk bank'' means an organization that-- (A) meets standards established by the Food and Drug Administration for purposes of ensuring the safety of donor human milk and human milk banks, including such standards as may be prescribed pursuant to section 6; and (B) collects, tests, processes, pasteurizes, a