Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025

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

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Oct 14, 2025

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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025

Latest action (Oct 14, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Policy area: Agriculture and Food · Origin: House · Introduced: Oct 14, 2025

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.