Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2023
Official title: To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase reimbursement rates of school meals, and for other purposes.
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Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1218)
Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2023
This bill permanently increases the federal reimbursement rates for the school lunch and breakfast programs. Specifically, beginning July 1, 2023, the bill provides an additional 45 cents per lunch served in the National School Lunch Program and an additional 28 cents per breakfast served in the School Breakfast Program. These amounts must be adjusted annually for inflation beginning July 1, 2024.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1269: Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-1269/
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