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Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025
To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase reimbursement rates of school meals, and for other purposes.
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Summary
Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025
This bill permanently increases the federal reimbursement rates for the school lunch and breakfast programs of the Department of Agriculture.
Specifically, beginning November 1, 2025, the bill provides an additional 45 cents per lunch served in the National School Lunch Program and an additional 28 cents per breakfast served in the School Breakfast Program. These amounts must be adjusted annually for inflation beginning July 1, 2026.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Oct 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- Oct 14, 2025 Introduced in House
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