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House Education committee refers HB 3201 on child nutrition reimbursements to Early Childhood and Ways and Means
Summary
The House Education Committee voted to refer House Bill 3201, which would increase reimbursements and create a supplemental fund for culturally specific menus in child-care food programs, to the House Committee on Early Childhood and Human Services and the Joint Committee on Ways and Means by prior reference.
The House Education Committee on Feb. 5 voted to refer House Bill 3201 to the House Committee on Early Childhood and Human Services and the Joint Committee on Ways and Means by prior reference.
The bill, summarized to the committee by staff, would direct the Oregon Department of Education to implement policies to increase access to healthy and culturally relevant foods for children in child-care settings, raise the reimbursement rate by $0.10, create a supplemental fund to support the change, and appropriate $250,000 from the general fund to the Oregon State University Extension Service to create culturally specific menus for the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). The measure declares an emergency and would take effect on July 1, 2025.
Why it matters: The referral sends the measure to the committee that will lead the childcare-focused policy discussion and to budget writers in Ways and Means, which is necessary because the bill includes an appropriation and a change to state reimbursement rates.
Vice Chair Emily McIntyre moved the referral "without recommendation as to passage" to Early Childhood and Human Services and Ways and Means by prior reference. Committee staff then called the roll; recorded votes included representatives Hollick, Hudson, Ruiz, Wright, Vice Chair Dobson, Vice Chair Mascotte and Chair Neron voting aye. Representative Winn was recorded as excused. The motion passed and HB 3201 was referred as moved.
The Committee’s action was limited to referral; there was no committee vote on the merits of the bill or on the underlying policy in Education.
What's next: The receiving committee and Ways and Means will consider the bill’s policy and budget elements. Because the measure includes an emergency clause and an appropriation, the Ways and Means review is a necessary step before any change to reimbursements or the appropriations can take effect.
