Summer meal program lets kids get meals at home or multiple places.
H.R. 9587 — Summer Meals REACH Act of 2026 · Filed by LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 2, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill changes how the summer meal program works. Meals can be delivered to homes or served at many locations instead of one place. All children can get meals now. The USDA must write rules within one year. The rules will cover meal quality and nutrition.
Who it affects
Kids in rural areas and far-away places can get free summer meals more easily. Schools and food service companies will have more ways to serve meals.
One thing to notice
The bill removes the rule that kids must eat together in one place. Schools and food companies will follow new USDA rules about meal quality that do not exist yet.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jul 2, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 2, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $0 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 14 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
LaMonica McIver, who sponsored the bill, received $577,550 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Mazon: a Jewish Response to Hunger — $0 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- USDA — the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the government agency that runs farm and food programs
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,684 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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