MONTPELIER A legislative committee has approved a bill that would provide free school meals to Vermont students for the upcoming school year but would leave future years still in question.The House Committee on Education voted, 9-2, on Thursday to.
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BENNINGTON â Food security advocates expect a vote in the Vermont Senate this coming week to move along legislation that would partly enact free universal school meals in the state.
According to Faye Mack, advocacy and education director with Hunger Free Vermont, the original bill in the Senate this session, S. 100, to implement universal school meals â both breakfast and lunch for all public school students in Vermont â has been amended.
The name of S. 100 has been changed from âFarm Fresh School Meals for Allâ to the âUniversal School Breakfast and Creation of the Task Force on Universal School Lunch Act.â