{"bill":{"id":"119-s-5318","congress":119,"type":"S","number":5318,"title":"Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026","originChamber":"Senate","introducedDate":"2026-08-06","sponsors":[{"bioguideId":"M001176","fullName":"Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]","party":"D","state":"OR","district":null}],"cosponsorsCount":4,"latestAction":{"actionDate":"2026-08-06","text":"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions."},"policyArea":"Agriculture and Food","subjects":[],"actions":[{"date":"2026-08-06","text":"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.","type":"IntroReferral","chamber":"Senate","hasVote":false},{"date":"2026-08-06","text":"Introduced in Senate","type":"IntroReferral","chamber":"Library of Congress","hasVote":false}],"summary":"<p><strong>Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026 </strong></p><p>This bill establishes a grant program to support summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site.</p><p>Specifically,&nbsp;the Department of Education must use funds provided for the program to&nbsp;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.</p><p>The program is open to local educational agencies that include schools where&nbsp;at least 50% of the students in prekindergarten through grade 3 are (1) reading below grade level at grade 3,&nbsp;or (2) at risk of reading below grade level at grade 3.</p>","updateDate":"2026-08-25T14:23:42Z"},"markets":[],"stateBills":[],"meta":{"sources":["congress.gov"],"latencyMs":8003,"ts":"2026-08-28T07:06:08.650Z"},"nextActions":{"inspect":[],"related":[{"description":"Search related legislation","method":"GET","url":"https://simplefunctions.dev/api/public/query-gov?q=Summer%20Meals%20and%20Learning%20Act%20of%202026"}]}}