H.R. 10058
Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026
Sponsor: Joseph D. Morelle · 0 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026
This bill establishes a grant program to support summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site.
Specifically, the Department of Education must use funds provided for the program to award competitive grants to state library administrative agencies to enable them to award subgrants to eligible local educational agencies for summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site.
The program is open to local educational agencies that include schools where at least 50% of the students in prekindergarten through grade 3 are (1) reading below grade level at grade 3, or (2) at risk of reading below grade level at grade 3.
Text of the bill
In this Act:
(1) Eligible local educational agency. The term eligible local educational agency means a local educational agency, as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)—
(A) that serves lunch at a school served by the local educational agency during the summer as part of—
(i) the summer food service program for children established under section 13 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1761); or
(ii) the seamless summer option authorized by section 13(a)(8) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761(a)(8)); and
(B) where at least 50 percent of the students in grades prekindergarten through grade 3 at such school—
(i) are reading below grade level at grade 3; or
(ii) are at risk of reading below grade level at grade 3.
(2) Secretary. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Education.
(3) State. The term State means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands.
(4) State library administrative agency. The term State library administrative agency has the meaning given the term in section 213 of the Museum and Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9122).
(5) Summer early reading program. The term summer early reading program means a program held in the summer, and not less than 6 weeks in duration, that—
(A) is held at a school with a summer lunch site described in paragraph (1)(A); and
(B) provides students participating in the lunch program—
(i) access to the school library; and
(ii) literacy activities or expanded learning opportunities at the school.