Sign H8129 and End Transaction Fees on School Lunch Payments

Please sign H8129. This bill ends transaction fees on school lunch payments in every Rhode Island district and requires each district to offer at least one no-fee way to pay. It has cleared the legislature and is now enrolled, waiting on your signature. Right now a parent who pays for a child's school lunch online can get charged a fee just to put money in their kid's account. Those fees pile up over a school year, and they hit families who can least afford an extra cost on top of the meal itself. No parent should have to pay a surcharge just to feed their child during the school day. H8129 fixes this by guaranteeing a free payment option in all districts and by requiring full disclosure whenever a payment platform plans to charge a fee, so families know what they owe before they pay. This is a straightforward, common sense protection for working families across the state, and it passed with broad sponsorship. The last step is yours. I am asking you to sign H8129 into law and stop these fees from draining money meant for our kids' meals.