Expressing support for the designation of the third week of March as "National CACFP Week".
Sponsored By: Representative Bonamici
Introduced
Summary
This resolution would recognize the third week of March as National CACFP Week and push to strengthen the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). The measure frames CACFP as a key program for feeding young children and vulnerable adults and for supporting childcare quality across settings.
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- Children and families: CACFP participation is linked to healthier diets and better development and the resolution cites research showing lower rates of underweight, overweight, or obesity and fewer hospitalizations for participating children.
- Scale of services: CACFP provides meals and snacks to more than 4.5 million children daily and about 120,000 adults daily, totaling roughly 1.7 billion meals and snacks each year.
- Providers and communities: The resolution says CACFP raises childcare quality, boosts Head Start and military childcare, and especially helps providers and families in low-income and rural areas.
- Policy changes urged: It calls for reimbursing an extra meal or snack for full-day care, lowering area eligibility from 50% to 40%, offering annual eligibility to for-profit centers, factoring annual food inflation into reimbursements, and cutting administrative burdens.
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More CACFP support for families
If adopted, this resolution would urge stronger support for the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). It would urge making for-profit childcare centers eligible on an annual basis and lowering the area-eligibility test from 50 percent to 40 percent. It would urge allowing one more reimbursable meal or snack for children in full-day care and adjusting reimbursement rates each year to reflect food-price inflation. It would also urge cutting paperwork and other administrative burdens for CACFP providers and sponsors.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Bonamici
OR • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-PA-7]
PA • R
Sponsored 3/17/2026
Wilson (FL)
FL • D
Sponsored 3/17/2026
McGovern
MA • D
Sponsored 3/17/2026
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 3/17/2026
Davis (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 3/17/2026
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