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Proposition LL allows the state of Colorado to keep extra taxes it collected from households making over $300,000 a year to continue a program that provides free school meals to all public school students regardless of income.

The Healthy Meals for All Program passed as Proposition FF in 2022. The measure reimburses public schools for lunches provided to students who are not covered by the federal free and reduced lunch program. Eligibility for federal assistance depends on family income.

Proposition LL passed with 66% of the vote in the November election. In addition to reimbursing public school food authorities, funds kept under LL will be used to pay stipends to school food preparers and to fund local food purchasing and technical assistance and education grants. 

Colorado is one of nine states to offer free lunch to all public school students.

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House Bill 22-1414 Final Fiscal Note, Legislative Council Staff, Aug. 31, 2022. Source link

Healthy Meals for all Public School Students, Colorado General Assembly, accessed Nov. 14, 2025. Source link

2025 Coordinated Election Results, Colorado Secretary of State, accessed Nov. 14, 2025. Source link

Proposition LL, City of Denver, accessed Nov. 18, 2025. Source link

Map shows states offering free school meals, Newsweek, Aug. 6, 2025. Source link

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Cassis Tingley is a Denver-based freelance journalist. She’s spent the last three years covering topics ranging from political organizing and death doulas in the Denver community to academic freedom and administrative accountability at the...