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HR 5753 · in committee · significant

Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The bill permanently increases federal reimbursement rates for school lunch and breakfast programs starting November 2025.
  • School districts and students participating in federal meal programs are affected by the higher reimbursement amounts.
  • The bill adds 45 cents per lunch and 28 cents per breakfast, with annual inflation adjustments beginning July 2026.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How would the 45-cent lunch and 28-cent breakfast reimbursement increases affect school districts with different poverty levels and existing meal program participation rates?

  2. 02

    What evidence supports the claim that higher federal reimbursement rates will improve student nutrition outcomes or academic performance?

  3. 03

    Which federal programs or spending would need to be reduced or reallocated to fund the permanent increase in meal reimbursements?

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Sponsor · D-MA-2

James P. McGovern

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Introduced 2025-10-14

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-10-14 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

  2. 2025-10-14 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-10-14 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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