3.0.0 993 2026-05-28T13:26:14Z 2026-05-28T13:26:14Z Senate S S 2025-03-12 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/993 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-03-12T18:47:32Z 2025-03-12 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2025-03-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000479 Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] John Fetterman D PA K. N B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2025-03-12 True W000800 Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] Peter Welch D VT 2025-03-12 True Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-05-05T20:59:43Z 00 2025-03-12 Introduced in Senate 2026-05-28T13:21:15Z School Lunch Debt Cancellation Act of 2025

This bill (1) requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to cancel school meal debts, and (2) expands USDA's authority to use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) and the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).

Specifically, USDA must cancel and eliminate all household school meal debts (as of the date of the bill's enactment) under the school breakfast and lunch programs. USDA must also pay the amount of the cancelled debt to each local educational authority using CCC funds.

The bill also reauthorizes the CSFP through FY2030 and allows USDA to use CCC funds for the program. As background, CSFP works to improve the health of low-income persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA foods.

In addition, the bill specifies that USDA may use CCC funds for all aspects of TEFAP. In recent years, USDA has used CCC funds for specific TEFAP activities. As background, through TEFAP, USDA purchases a variety of food commodities. TEFAP provides those food commodities (and cash support for storage and distribution costs) to state agencies that distribute the food to local emergency feeding organizations (e.g., food banks).

]]> School Lunch Debt Cancellation Act of 2025 Display Title 45 School Lunch Debt Cancellation Act of 2025 2025-03-29T02:23:23Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 School Lunch Debt Cancellation Act of 2025 2025-03-29T02:23:20Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to cancel existing school meal debt, to expand the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation for use in nutrition assistance programming, and for other purposes. 2025-03-29T02:19:00Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-03-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s993is/xml/BILLS-119s993is.xml 2025-03-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 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.