Possibly Free Lunch for ND Legislators and Students

BISMARCK, ND (trfnews.i234.me) North Dakota legislators voted down a bill to provide free lunch for students, then voted more money for their meals. Another bill could still provide free lunch for students.
lawmakers in North Dakota voted to boost their own meal reimbursements just days after they voted against spent expanding the free lunch program in North Dakota a North Dakota Senate voted to approve SB 2124 Thursday which increases in-state meal and reimbursements for state employees including lawmakers during interim legislative meetings increased from 35 dollars per day to 45 dollars per day the last time per diem for state employees was increased was 2013. Senator Kyle Davison republican from Fargo said when introducing the bill I believe with inflation it’s time to consider an increase last week the Senate voted against House Bill 1491 which have covered meals for students whose families are between 130 percent and 200 percent of the poverty level for a family of four that means those making less than about sixty thousand dollars several members of the Senate voted for SB 2124 and against HB 1491 however the issue of free school lunches has not yet settled after the free school lunches bill was defeated the program was written into a different Bill SB 2284 which was previously unrelated to school lunches the meal reimbursement bill would cost the state just under 1 million dollars per biennium the school lunches bill would cost the state six million dollars per biennium