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2026 Regular Session

HB704

Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program - Establishment

Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs; requiring schools that opt out of the Community Eligibility Provision of the Child Nutrition Program to include certain information in a certain report; and requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2028 and succeeding years to include $10,000,000 in the annual budget bill for the Program.

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Introduced in House February 2, 2026

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  1. House Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations) and Hearing canceled (Ways and Means)
  2. House Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations) and Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
  3. House Reassigned to Appropriations Ways and Means
  4. House Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
  5. House First Reading Ways and Means and Appropriations
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