House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Expanding Access to School Meals Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to eliminate reduced price breakfasts and lunches and to require that the income guidelines for determining eligibility for free breakfasts and free lunches be 224 percent of the poverty level, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Josh Gottheimer D-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 7, 2025
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- Passed House—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2680.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOTTHEIMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 62, April 7, 2025, Page H1461):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2680, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2680
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
48 cosponsors — 48 Democrats
0 of 48 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Sean Casten (D-IL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), George Latimer (D-NY), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Seth Moulton (D-MA) and 18 more.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.