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Proposal would eliminate reduced-price school meal copay; sponsor asks for $600,000 appropriation
Summary
House Bill 551 would eliminate the reduced-price meal category (30¢ breakfast, 40¢ lunch) and appropriates about $600,000 to schools to cover the change; testimony tied the change to reducing meal debt and administrative collection costs.
Representative Melissa Romano presented House Bill 551 and a handout to the Appropriations Committee on Feb. 12, 2025, asking an appropriation of about $600,000 to eliminate the reduced-price category and absorb what families now pay for reduced-price school breakfast and lunch.
Romano’s handout multiplied student counts and eligible free-and-reduced numbers across three school years to estimate roughly $600,000 in annual cost if all eligible students took the subsidized meals for the school year. She said eliminating the 30¢ breakfast and 40¢ lunch copays…
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