Expanding Access to School Meals Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 49
- Latest action
- Apr 7, 2025
What it does
Expanding Access to School Meals Act of 2025 This bill increases student access to free school lunches and breakfasts under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program of the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Specifically, the bill expands program eligibility to include students in households with income at or below 224% of the federal poverty level. (Currently, students in households with income at or below 130% are eligible.) The bill also eliminates the reduced price school lunch and breakfast programs and prohibits USDA from providing reimbursements for reduced price programs. States may use Medicaid participation data to directly certify students for free school…
Official summary · Introduced in House · Apr 7, 2025
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Josh Gottheimer
- Adam Smith
- Adelita Grijalva
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alma Adams
- Andrea Salinas
- André Carson
- Bonnie Watson Coleman
- Brittany Pettersen
- Dan Goldman
- Danny Davis
- Debbie Dingell
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Dwight Evans
- Eleanor Norton
- Frederica Wilson
- George Latimer
- Haley Stevens
- Jahana Hayes
- Jared Huffman
- Jim Costa
- John Garamendi
- Jonathan Jackson
- Judy Chu
- Kevin Mullin
- Lloyd Doggett
- Lois Frankel
- Marilyn Strickland
- Mark DeSaulnier
- Maxwell Frost
- Mike Thompson
- Mikie Sherrill
- Morgan McGarvey
- Nicole (Nikki) Budzinski
- Nikema Williams
- Robert Menendez
- Salud Carbajal
- Sanford Bishop
- Sarah McBride
- Sean Casten
- Seth Moulton
- Shri Thanedar
- Steve Cohen
- Suhas Subramanyam
- Suzan DelBene
- Terri Sewell
- Thomas Suozzi
- Wesley Bell
- Yassamin Ansari
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