Florida Senate Bill 74 (Prefiled Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on December 2 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-15 - Referred to Agriculture; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
Pending: Senate Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and operate a program to provide universal free school breakfast and lunch meals to all public school students; deleting provisions requiring school districts to implement and charge students for a breakfast program; deleting provisions requiring only certain school districts to implement a universal free school breakfast program and encouraging districts to provide free breakfast meals; authorizing school districts to operate free school meal programs using offsite food preparation locations, etc.

Universal Free School Breakfast and Lunch Program

Sen. Lori Berman [D]

Sen. Carlos Smith [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-15	Senate	Referred to Agriculture; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
2024-12-02	Senate	Filed

H119 (Same As) 2025-01-15 - Now in Education Administration Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
595	402		Amended Code	See Bill Text
595	404		Amended Code	See Bill Text
595	405		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/74
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/74/BillText/Filed/PDF
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/74/BillText/Filed/HTML