Minnesota legislation · 94th Legislature 2025-2026
Minnesota HF3511: Funding for school safety increased, local optional aid for schools increased, state-paid free school lunches limited to families with incomes at or below 500 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, and money appropriated.
Status: In committee, April 16, 2026
What the bill says
A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for school safety; increasing local optional aid for schools; limiting state-paid free school lunches to families with incomes at or below 500 percent of the federal poverty guidelines; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 124D.111, subdivisions 1, 1c, 1d, 4, by adding a subdivision; 126C.10, subdivision 2e; 126C.44; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, sections 124D.111, subdivision 1a; 124E.20, subdivision 1; Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 10, article 9, section 11, subdivision 4.
From the introduced text, February 19, 2026:
A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for school safety; increasing local optional aid for schools; limiting state-paid free school lunches to families with incomes at or below 500 percent of the federal poverty guidelines; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 124D.111, subdivisions 1, 1c, 1d, 4, by adding a subdivision; 126C.10, subdivision 2e; 126C.44; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, sections 124D.111, subdivision 1a; 124E.20, subdivision 1; Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 10, article 9, section 11, subdivision 4. Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 124D.111, subdivision 1, is amended to read: Subdivision 1. School meals policiesnew text begin [ definitions] new text end . (a) Each Minnesota participant in the national school lunch program must adopt and post to its website, or the website of the organization where the meal is served, a school meals policy. (b) The policy must be in writing and clearly communicate student meal charges when payment cannot be collected at the point of service. The policy must be reasonable and well-defined and maintain the dignity of students by prohibiting lunch shaming or otherwise ostracizing the student. (c) The policy must address whether the participant uses a collections agency to collect unpaid school meals debt. (d) The policy must ensure that once a participant has placed a meal on a …