3.0.0 5318 2026-08-25T14:23:42Z 2026-08-25T14:23:42Z Senate S S 2026-08-06 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5318 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2026-08-06T18:22:29Z Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026 119 10058 HR 2026-08-06 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Identical bill CRS 2026-08-06 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2026-08-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR N B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2026-08-06 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2026-08-06 True L000570 Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] Ben Luján D NM R. 2026-08-06 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2026-08-06 True Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2026-08-24T18:03:27Z 00 2026-08-06 Introduced in Senate 2026-08-25T14:23:32Z Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026

This bill establishes a grant program to support summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site.

Specifically, the Department of Education must use funds provided for the program to award competitive grants to state library administrative agencies to enable them to award subgrants to eligible local educational agencies for summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site.

The program is open to local educational agencies that include schools where at least 50% of the students in prekindergarten through grade 3 are (1) reading below grade level at grade 3, or (2) at risk of reading below grade level at grade 3.

]]> Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026 Display Title 45 Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026 2026-08-14T02:23:43Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026 2026-08-14T02:23:42Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to create a new Federal grant program that provides grants to State libraries to allow schools with summer lunch programs to keep their libraries open for student use during the summer months. 2026-08-14T02:18:50Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2026-08-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s5318is/xml/BILLS-119s5318is.xml 2026-08-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.