Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2026 has not moved since its introduction on Sep 23, 2026, with cosponsors, all Democrats
IntroducedSep 23, 2026
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Passed one chamber—
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 69 words.
Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2026 This bill permanently increases the federal reimbursement rates for the school lunch and breakfast programs. Specifically, beginning October 1, 2026, 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, 2027.
Context
- Committees
- Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
- Policy area
- Agriculture and Food: 14 of 2,036 bills became law, 113th–118th (0.7%)
- Sponsor
- 3 of 282 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 206 words
- Latest action
- Sep 23, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 2
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 2 in all.
Related, per CRS or House · 2
- 119th H.R. 5753 Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025 D · Introduced
- 118th S. 3093 Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2023 D · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]