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H.R. 6613: Keeping School Meals Flexible Act

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H.R. 6613: Keeping School Meals Flexible Act

117th Congress · introduced 2022-02-04 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2022-02-04 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Keeping School Meals Flexible Act

Plain summary

Keeping School Meals Flexible Act This bill extends authority through June 30, 2023, for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to waive certain requirements for the school meal programs to address COVID-19. The bill extends the authority for USDA to issue a single waiver of child nutrition program requirements to all states under the National School Lunch Program for purposes of providing meals and snacks with appropriate safety measures with respect to COVID-19; grant waivers of requirements to allow non-congregate feeding in the Child and Adult Care Food Program for purposes of providing meals and snacks with appropriate safety measures with respect to COVID-19; and grant waivers related to the nutritional content of meals served in child nutrition programs if it determines the waiver is necessary to provide meals and snacks, and there is a food supply chain disruption due to COVID-19.

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Official text

Keeping School Meals Flexible Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7] · 106 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Ed Case (D-HI), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Dina Titus (D-NV), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Darren Soto (D-FL), Deborah K. Ross (D-NC), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Shontel M. Brown (D-OH), Peter Welch (D-VT), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Rick Larsen (D-WA) and 46 more.

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Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr6613 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117