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Education panel backs measure to send 2025 ballot measures on Healthy School Meals for All to finance committee
Summary
The House Education Committee voted 7-5 to advance Rep. Serena Garcia Sander’s bill to refer two ballot measures that would retain and raise Prop FF funds to sustain and expand Healthy School Meals for All, after hours of testimony from nutrition advocates, school officials and farmers.
The Colorado House Education Committee voted 7-5 to advance House Bill 1274 as amended, a bill that would send two ballot measures to voters in 2025 aimed at preserving and expanding the Healthy School Meals for All program created by Proposition FF in 2022.
Representative Serena Garcia Sander, the bill sponsor, told the committee the program has provided millions of meals and saved families roughly $1,300 per child per year, but that changing federal reimbursement rates, faster-than-expected district opt-ins and high food inflation have created a funding shortfall that threatens the full implementation of Prop FF. The bill would: (1) ask voters to retain state funds…
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