Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative McGovern
Introduced
Summary
Raises federal school meal reimbursements. This bill would create new, non-performance-based additional payments to school meal programs, adding 45 cents per lunch and 28 cents per breakfast starting November 1, 2025, with those amounts adjusted under Section 11(a)(3) beginning July 1, 2026.
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- School food authorities would receive an extra 45 cents for every lunch served and an extra 28 cents for each breakfast served beginning November 1, 2025. These added amounts would be modified over time using the adjustment method in Section 11(a)(3) starting July 1, 2026.
- Students and families: the breakfast increase explicitly covers free, reduced-price, and paid breakfasts. The lunch increase applies to every lunch served in a school food authority.
- Program rules: the new payments are labeled "Non-performance-based Additional Reimbursements," meaning the extra money would not be tied to performance metrics.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More money for school meals
Starting November 1, 2025, your child’s school would get $0.45 more for each lunch served. It would also get $0.28 more for each breakfast, including free, reduced-price, and paid meals. These amounts would be adjusted starting July 1, 2026 under existing school lunch adjustment rules. The extra money would not depend on performance ratings and would not go directly to families.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
McGovern
MA • D
Cosponsors
Scott, David
GA • D
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Rep. Brown, Shontel M. [D-OH-11]
OH • D
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Adams
NC • D
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]
MA • D
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Trahan
MA • D
Sponsored 11/12/2025
Jackson (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 11/12/2025
Keating
MA • D
Sponsored 11/12/2025
Mrvan
IN • D
Sponsored 12/5/2025
Pingree
ME • D
Sponsored 1/12/2026
Thompson (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 1/21/2026
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 1/21/2026
Randall
WA • D
Sponsored 2/3/2026
Rep. Subramanyam, Suhas [D-VA-10]
VA • D
Sponsored 4/9/2026
Rep. Whitesides, George [D-CA-27]
CA • D
Sponsored 4/9/2026
Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]
VA • D
Sponsored 4/28/2026
Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10]
CA • D
Sponsored 5/12/2026
Roll Call Votes
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