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.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
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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- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS (NAESP)
- ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS (FORMERLY AS AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION)
- ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS (FORMERLY AS AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION)
- AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
- CSPI ACTION FUND
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Education, Dept of
- Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
Cite this page
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/
"H.R. 5753: Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5753/.
H.R. 5753, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5753/.
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