House concurrent resolution designating May 18, 2025 as Grand Army of the Republic Highway Day in Vermont

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Lucy Boyden and 1 co-sponsor

Urges the Department of Education to deliver a detailed, transparent report on the true cost of producing school meals to the Legislature, to prevent unwarranted price increases.

Adopted pursuant to Joint Rule 16b

Summary — HCR 111 (2025)

Title: Urging the Department of Education to provide a detailed report to the Legislature on the true cost of producing school meals to ensure transparency and avoid unnecessary price increases

Type: Concurrent resolution
Introduced: March 13, 2025
Sponsors: Reps. Amato, Keohokapu-Leo Loy, Reyes Oda, Shimizu, La Chica, Grandinetti, Marten, Poepoe, Kusch
Companion: HR 107
Final status: Adopted by the Legislature; enrolled and signed by the Governor (signed June 20, 2025)

Purpose and intent

HCR 111 urges the State Department of Education (DOE) to prepare and deliver to the Legislature a detailed, transparent report that identifies the true cost of producing school meals. The resolution is intended to improve transparency in school meal operations and to provide factual information that can help avoid unnecessary increases in meal prices charged to students or districts.

Key provisions

Formally requests/urges the Department of Education to compile and submit a detailed report to the Legislature on the actual costs of producing school meals.

Emphasizes transparency as a goal and frames the report as a tool to prevent unwarranted price increases for school meals.

(Note: as a concurrent resolution, HCR 111 expresses legislative intent and requests action but does not create binding law or appropriate funds.)

Who is affected

Department of Education: primary recipient of the resolution’s request; responsible for producing the requested report.

School food service programs and district administrators: information collected and summarized will concern their operational costs (food, labor, procurement, overhead, equipment, transportation, etc.).

Students, families, and taxpayers: potential beneficiaries if the report leads to clearer pricing decisions, adjustments in meal pricing, or legislative budgeting to avoid price increases.

Legislature: will receive the report and may use it to inform future policy, appropriations, or statutory changes.

Potential impact

Increased transparency about how school meal costs are calculated.

Inform legislative oversight and budgeting decisions related to school meal funding and pricing.

May lead to policy or budgetary actions to prevent or mitigate meal price increases, though the resolution itself does not mandate such actions.

Legislative timeline / procedural history (selected)

Filed: March 13, 2025

Referred to EDN (Education) committee; reported favorably (committee vote 7–0; 4 excused)

Adopted by the House and Senate in May 2025; enrolled May 30, 2025

Sent to Governor May 31, 2025; signed June 20, 2025

This concurrent resolution formalizes the Legislature’s request for better cost information on school meal production to guide transparent and prudent pricing and policy decisions.