HR7542-119

In Committee

Kids Need Lunch Act

119th Congress Introduced Feb 12, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Kids Need Lunch Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses. The main policy domain is Agriculture, Government Operations, Education.

Who Benefits and How

farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HBA67E746514D409D95D1A85E639EC845: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Kids Need Lunch Act. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
  • Section H6D469C2707A941009BAE0DAC5E64CEB9: 2. Effective date Unless otherwise provided, this Act, and the amendments made by this Act, shall take effect 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
  • Section H648DE3948598405AA9D0BBC909176CC8: 101. Apportionment to States Section 4(b) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1753(b)) is amended— by striking paragraph (2) and...
  • Section H797D81897BEE4AE5B482A31220C1FB67: 102. Nutritional and other program requirements Section 9(b) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(b)) is amended to read as...
  • Section HA56F13081BED4B0E845348ECCB79DFBC: 103. Price for a paid lunch Section 12 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760) is amended— in subsection (l)(4)— by striking...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Kids Need Lunch Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses.

Key Policy Areas

Agriculture, Government Operations, Education

Primary Purpose

This bill, Kids Need Lunch Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses.

Policy Domains

Agriculture Government Operations Education

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Feb 12, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Feb 12, 2026

Introduced in House

Feb 12, 2026

Mr. Krishnamoorthi introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Agriculture Government Operations Education
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_agriculture"
→ Secretary of Agriculture

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"delinquent debt" §H4BC7EFCE666F404085E6BA9811F8EF96

the debt owed by a parent or guardian of a child to a school— as of the effective date specified in section 2

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

Learn more about our methodology