Sen. DiDomenico advocates for his Universal School Meals legislation

The Food System Caucus, which DiDomenico Co-Chairs, has endorsed the bill

Senator Sal DiDomenico testified at an Education Committee Hearing this week in support of his Universal School Meals bill, S.261, An Act relative to universal school meals. This legislation, which was sponsored by Senator DiDomenico and Representative Andy Vargas, would provide free breakfast and lunch to every child in a Massachusetts K-12 school.

Senator DiDomenico has spent years advocating for this commonsense legislation and is a Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Education. He is using his new role as Co-Chair of the Food System Caucus to advance this priority. The Caucus recently endorsed several pieces of legislation, including Senator DiDomenico’s Universal School Meals bill. DiDomenico will continue his work to get his proposal passed by the legislature and signed by the governor.

Senator DiDomenico remarked to the Committee, “We don’t means test anything else in our schools, textbooks, visits to nurses, pens, pencils, or any kind of supplies. The most important thing we can do, feeding kids, we charge for that. It is past time we pass my universal school meals legislation and guarantee that no student goes hungry in a Massachusetts school ever again.”

The Food System Caucus is comprised of a bipartisan group of 158 legislators from every corner of the Commonwealth that works to ensure that our food producers and consumers have a seat at the table and advance legislation that will give them the support they need and deserve. This group will now be advocating in support of their handful of endorsed bills, including Universal School Meals.