YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneySummer meals could be driven out to kids instead of eaten on site — a small pilot would buy the vehicles.
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Groups that already run summer meal programs — schools, nonprofits, camps and local governments — could get a one-year grant to buy, repair or fit out a delivery vehicle. The pilot is small: no grant over $100,000, and up to $1 million a year nationally.
In picking who gets a grant, the Agriculture Secretary would have to favor areas with poor economic conditions, areas outside a metro region, and areas serving many students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Awards would also be spread across different states.
More about this bill
Rural families could get summer meals driven out to them, rather than bringing a child to a meal site each day. A new pilot would pay for the delivery vehicles. The Agriculture Secretary would give one-year grants to the local groups that run summer meal programs. Schools, nonprofits, camps and local governments all qualify. The money buys, repairs or fits out delivery vehicles. No grant could top $100,000. The bill would allow up to $1 million a year for 2027 through 2029. Congress would still have to provide the money. Poor areas, areas outside a metro region, and areas with many disadvantaged students would come first. The pilot would start with the first summer that falls more than 180 days after the bill becomes law.
Congressional Summary
Feeding Our Rural Kids Act of 2026 or the FORK Act of 2026 This bill establishes a summer meal delivery vehicle pilot program as part of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). (The SFSP is a federally funded, state-administered program that reimburses providers that serve no-cost, healthy meals and snacks to children and teens at summer sites in low-income communities.) Under the bill, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) must award one-year grants of up to $100,000 for service institutions (e.g., school food authorities) to purchase, retrofit, or repair vehicles to facilitate noncongregate meal distribution. This is meal distribution outside of the typically required group, or congregate, setting (e.g., grab-and-go meal service). Among other things, USDA must give priority to service institutions located in an area in which poor economic conditions exist and that serve a high proportion of students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. USDA must also ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that service institutions receiving grants are located in different states.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-08-03
- Date Added
- 2026-09-15
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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