2025 bills / S.B. 173
S.B. 173 School Meal Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates a Universal Free School Meals Program so that students enrolled in public schools receive meals at no cost. It also sets up a restricted account to help pay for those meals and makes some technical wording changes.
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Official description
- defines terms
- creates the Universal Free School Meals Program
- provides free meals to students enrolled in public schools
- creates a restricted account to assist in funding the school meals
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 173 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 173 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 13, 2025 Senate Education Committee▶ Watch