Expanding Access to School Meals Act of 2025 repeals reduced price breakfasts and lunches and expands free lunch eligibility.
The Expanding Access to School Meals Act of 2025 repeals reduced price breakfasts and lunches and expands free lunch eligibility. It removes reduced price meals from the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. It also raises the income threshold for free lunch eligibility to 224 percent of the poverty level. The bill allows local educational agencies to certify children for free meals by directly communicating with state or local agencies to obtain documentation of the child's eligibility.
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