Florida 2025 Regular Session Status: In Committee 2 D cosponsors

SB 74 — Universal Free School Breakfast and Lunch Program

Last action — Died in Agriculture

Track this bill free

No card. One bill, free forever — alerts when it moves.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Universal Free School Breakfast and Lunch Program; Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and operate a program to provide universal free school breakfast and lunch meals to all public school students; deleting provisions requiring school districts to implement and charge students for a breakfast program; deleting provisions requiring only certain school districts to implement a universal free school breakfast program and encouraging districts to provide free breakfast meals; authorizing school districts to operate free school meal programs using offsite food preparation locations, etc.

Bill Text

How this bill changes current law

5 changes Share ↗

AI-generated reading aid from the bill's amendatory text — verify against the official bill.

The bill establishes a universal free school breakfast and lunch program for all public school students in Florida, eliminating previous requirements for charging students and limiting the program to certain districts.

  • 595.405

    school breakfast programs that make breakfast meals available to all students in each school that serves any combination of grades K-12. → each school district shall implement a universal school breakfast and lunch program that offers eligible breakfast and lunch meals, free of charge,

    This change requires school districts to provide free meals instead of charging students.

  • 595.405

    Each district school board shall, through school announcements and notices, annually provide to all parents information prepared by the district’s food service administration regarding the availability of free available school meals breakfast programs. → Each district school board shall, through school announcements and notices, annually provide to all parents information prepared by the district’s food service administration regarding the availability of free school meal programs.

    This change revises how school meal information is communicated to parents.

  • 595.405

    To increase school breakfast and universal school breakfast program participation, each district school board must, To the maximum extent practicable, make breakfast meals available to students through alternative service models as described in publications of the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture for the federal School Breakfast Program. → To increase student participation in the universal school breakfast and lunch program, each school district operating a breakfast program shall: Make a breakfast meal available to a student who arrives at school on the school bus less than 15 minutes before the first bell rings and shall allow the student at least 15 minutes to eat the breakfast.

    This change establishes specific requirements for serving breakfast to students arriving close to the start of the school day.

  • 595.405

    A district school board may operate its free school meal a breakfast program providing for food preparation at the school site or in central locations with distribution to designated satellite schools, or any combination thereof. → Each district school board may operate free school meal programs using offsite food preparation locations.

    This change allows more flexibility in how free school meals are prepared and distributed.

  • 595.404

    ss. 595.402(7) → ss. 595.402(3)

    This change updates a cross-reference to reflect amendments made in the definitions section.

Action History

  1. Died in Agriculture

  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration

  3. Introduced

  4. Referred to Agriculture; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy

  5. Filed

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

Export CSV (upgrade) →

1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 162 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (1)

Not signed on (162)

162 members have not signed on to this bill.

Show all 162 →

"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

Whip count is in markup. Polling the chamber and every recorded vote this session. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing

Subjects

education agriculture
Cross-referencing the record. Reading this bill against every other bill in the corpus by meaning, not keywords. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Matching · Ranking · Engrossing

Frequently asked questions

What does SB 74 do?
Universal Free School Breakfast and Lunch Program; Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and operate a program to provide universal free school breakfast and lunch meals to all public school students; deleting provisions requiring school districts to implement and charge students for a breakfast program; deleting provisions requiring only certain school districts to implement a universal free school breakfast program and encouraging districts to provide free breakfast meals; authorizing school districts to operate free school meal programs using offsite food preparation locations, etc.
Who sponsors SB 74?
SB 74 is sponsored by Berman, Lori (Democrat) and Smith, Carlos Guillermo (Democrat).
What is the current status of SB 74?
This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 74?
Track SB 74 free on One Click Politics — get push/email alerts when it moves.

Make your voice heard on SB 74

Find the representatives who decide this bill and tell them where you stand — for yourself, or mobilize your whole list in one click with One Click Politics advocacy software.

Find my representatives → Run a campaign

Stay ahead of SB 74

Last checked for changes 2 months ago · updated continuously

One Click Politics tracks every bill in Congress and all 50 states.

Track this bill →