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The bill delivers a small, immediate boost in per-meal reimbursements that marginally helps low-income children, schools, and child-care meal providers, while increasing federal spending and creating modest implementation burdens with limited likelihood of large improvements in meal quality.
Low-income children and students receive an immediate per-meal increase of $0.10 in reimbursements, putting more federal funding toward meals served in schools and child-care settings.
Family and group day care home sponsoring organizations and K-12 schools get the same additional reimbursement, helping their budgets cover food and administrative costs and reducing financial pressure on meal providers.
All taxpayers bear the federal cost of higher reimbursements through increased outlays for the school meals program.
A modest $0.10 per meal may be too small to materially improve meal quality or fully offset rising food costs, limiting practical benefits for students, families, and schools.
USDA and sponsoring organizations will incur short-term administrative work to implement the new reimbursement, update forms, and adjust cross-references, creating implementation costs and staff burden.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds an additional federal reimbursement of $0.10 per child meal or supplement served in child care programs, adjustable annually, and makes technical statutory fixes.
Introduced April 10, 2025 by Greg Landsman · Last progress April 10, 2025
Creates a new federal payment of $0.10 more for each meal or supplement served in child care food programs, with the amount subject to annual adjustment. Makes small technical fixes and ensures the new payment also applies to reimbursements for family and group day care home sponsoring organizations.