HB 1561: KEIKI CAUCUS; STATE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COMMISSION; PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS; MEAL SUBSIDIES; APPROPRIATION

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: House
Latest Version Date: 2026-02-13

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-02-17: Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Lee, M., Poepoe excused (3).)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Final Decking

Enacted

Version:

Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires public charter schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to provide free meals to students whose family income is no more than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Discussed in Hearing