House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase reimbursement rates of school meals, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. James McGovern D-MAWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 14, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 14, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5753.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MCGOVERN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 169, October 14, 2025, Page H4537):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5753, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5753
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
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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
21 cosponsors — 21 Democrats
0 of 21 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Troy Carter (D-LA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), William Keating (D-MA), John Mannion (D-NY), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Frank Mrvan (D-IN), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Emily Randall (D-WA), David Scott (D-GA), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), George Whitesides (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. James McGovern.
- H.R. 1834 (119th) To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.
- H.Res. 780 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1834) to advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.
- H.Res. 887 (119th) Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
- H.R. 5439 (119th) Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act
- H.Con.Res. 68 (119th) To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.
- H.Res. 317 (119th) Urging the United States to lead the world back from the brink of nuclear war and halt and reverse the nuclear arms race.
Related bills
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Sponsor’s state and district
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