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AN ACT concerning Primary and Secondary Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Universal Expansion FOR the purpose of altering the standards of the State Free Feeding Program, beginning in a certain fiscal year, to require that if a school participates in a certain federal nutritional program, then each student in the school must be offered a meal at no cost to the student; providing for the reimbursement rate at which the State shall pay county boards and participating nonpublic schools for the free meals offered to students; prohibiting a county board or nonpublic school from charging a student any portion of the cost of a certain breakfast or lunch; and generally relating to the expansion of breakfast and lunch meals to all students in participating schools. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Education Section 7-601, 7-602, and 7-702 Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume) BY adding to Article - Education Section 7-606 Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume) BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Education Section 7-701 HOUSE BILL 628 Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume)

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Kirill Reznik (D)*,  Dalya Attar (D),  Vanessa Atterbeary (D),  Darryl Barnes (D),  Adrian Boafo (D),  Jon Cardin (D),  Lorig Charkoudian (D),  Charlotte Crutchfield (D),  Kris Fair (D),  Jessica Feldmark (D),  Linda Foley (D),  Cathi Forbes (D),  Brooke Grossman (D),  Michele Guyton (D),  Anne Healey (D),  Shaneka Henson (D),  Aaron Kaufman (D),  Aletheia McCaskill (D),  Ric Metzgar (R),  Bernice Mireku-North (D),  Julie Palakovich Carr (D),  Cheryl Pasteur (D),  Pam Queen (D),  Sheila Ruth (D),  Emily Shetty (D),  Jared Solomon (D),  Dana Stein (D),  Jen Terrasa (D),  Joe Vogel (D),  Courtney Watson (D),  Jheanelle Wilkins (D), 

House Ways and Means Hearing (13:00:00 2/22/2023 ) (on 02/22/2023)

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