Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Oct 14, 2025, with cosponsors, all Democrats
IntroducedOct 14, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 74 words.
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.
Context
- Committees
- House Education and Workforce Committee
- Policy area
- Agriculture and Food: 14 of 2,036 bills became law, 113th–118th (0.7%)
- Sponsor
- 2 of 107 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 199 words
- Latest action
- Oct 14, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Related, per CRS or House · 1
- 119th S. 5460 Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2026 D · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]