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SB 1581Requires school districts to offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of income.

Congress · introduced 2026-01-16

Digest: Makes school meals available at no cost. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires school districts to offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of income. Provides exceptions. Requires school districts that make breakfast accessible at a school site to make breakfast accessible at the school site after the beginning of the day. [<i>Prescribes nutrition standards for reimbursable meals that are paid for by state sources.</i>] Takes effect on July 1, 2026.

Latest action: In Senate Committee

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · state_upper Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
  2. · state_upper Referred to Education.
  3. · state_upper Informational Meeting held.
  4. · state_upper Public Hearing held.
  5. · state_upper Work Session held.
  6. · state_upper Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means. (Printed A-Eng.)
  7. · state_upper Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President.
  8. · state_upper In committee upon adjournment.

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Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Bowman, Ben (D, state_lower OR-25)sponsor05
2Campos, Wlnsvey (D, state_upper OR-18)sponsor05
3Dobson, April (D, state_lower OR-39)sponsor05
4Frederick, Lew (D, state_upper OR-22)sponsor05
5Javadi, Cyrus (D, state_lower OR-32)sponsor05
6Levy, Emerson (D, state_lower OR-53)sponsor05
7Manning Jr., James (D, state_upper OR-7)sponsor05
8Neron Misslin, Courtney (D, state_upper OR-13)sponsor05
9Patterson, Deb (D, state_upper OR-10)sponsor05
10Pham, Hai (D, state_lower OR-36)sponsor05
11Wise, Lamar (D, state_lower OR-48)sponsor05
12Andersen, Tom (D, state_lower OR-19)cosponsor01
13Chaichi, Farrah (D, state_lower OR-35)cosponsor01
14Chotzen, Willy (D, state_lower OR-46)cosponsor01
15Evans, Paul (D, state_lower OR-20)cosponsor01
16Gamba, Mark (D, state_lower OR-41)cosponsor01
17Gomberg, David (D, state_lower OR-10)cosponsor01
18Jama, Kayse (D, state_upper OR-24)cosponsor01
19McDonald , Sarah (D, state_lower OR-16)cosponsor01
20Meek, Mark (D, state_upper OR-20)cosponsor01
21Muñoz, Lesly (D, state_lower OR-22)cosponsor01
22Nelson, Travis (D, state_lower OR-44)cosponsor01
23Nguyen, Daniel (D, state_lower OR-38)cosponsor01
24Nosse, Rob (D, state_lower OR-42)cosponsor01
25Owens, Mark (R, state_lower OR-60)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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