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H.R. 5753 119th Congress House

Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025

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.

Introduced: January 21, 2026 Introduced by: James P. McGovern Democratic · Massachusetts See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Oct 14, 2025
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

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Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025

This bill permanently increases the federal reimbursement rates for the school lunch and breakfast programs of the Department of Agriculture.

Specifically, beginning November 1, 2025, 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, 2026.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5753: Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5753/
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