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HR 6430 116th Congress House

Suspend School Meal Debt Act

Official title: To require that school food authorities and local educational agencies not collect unpaid meal fees during the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 3, 2020 Introduced by: Omar, Ilhan Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food Cardiovascular and respiratory healthChild healthDebt collectionEducation programs funding
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Apr 3, 2020
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Suspend School Meal Debt Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to reimburse each school food authority and local educational agency participating in the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program for unpaid meal fees owed to the authority or agency as of the date of the enactment of this bill.

The bill also prohibits each school food authority and local educational agency from collecting unpaid meal fees or using a debt collector to collect such fees during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. The prohibition ends 30 days after the date on which the public health emergency is terminated.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 32
All 32 Democratic 26
HASTINGS, ALCEE
· Jun 24, 2020
 D
Foster, Bill
Illinois · Apr 17, 2020
 D
García, Jesús G. "Chuy"
Illinois · Apr 17, 2020
 D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
New Jersey · Apr 17, 2020
 D
Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Apr 10, 2020
RUSH, BOBBY
· Apr 10, 2020
 D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Espaillat, Adriano
New York · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Hayes, Jahana
Connecticut · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Jayapal, Pramila
Washington · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Apr 3, 2020
Lee, Barbara
· Apr 3, 2020
Levin, Andy
· Apr 3, 2020
Lowenthal, Alan
· Apr 3, 2020
 D
McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · Apr 3, 2020
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Moore, Gwen
Wisconsin · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Apr 3, 2020
Napolitano, Grace
· Apr 3, 2020
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria
New York · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Pingree, Chellie
Maine · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Pocan, Mark
Wisconsin · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Pressley, Ayanna
Massachusetts · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Sánchez, Linda T.
California · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Soto, Darren
Florida · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Thompson, Bennie G.
Mississippi · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Tlaib, Rashida
Michigan · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Vargas, Juan
California · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · Apr 3, 2020
 D
Wilson, Frederica S.
Florida · Apr 3, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6430: Suspend School Meal Debt Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-6430/
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"H.R. 6430: Suspend School Meal Debt Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-6430/.
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H.R. 6430, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-6430/.
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