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funding and money from the state's Food Insecurity Fund to provide the free breakfasts. Part of the fund will also come from money collected out of the taxes received from the sale of medical marijuana. The free breakfast program available to all public school students is set to also begin during the upcoming 20252026 school year.

Other Legislation

Moving along to another piece of legislation — Gov.

Sanders also signed HB1427, otherwise known as the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act, into law on Thursday.

This act will amend the law in Arkansas to help improve maternal health across the state.

It will do so by helping to establish presumptive Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women which means that they can begin receiving prenatal care as they work on completing their Medicaid application. It would also offer doulas and community health workers various pathways for reimbursement.

Another bill signed by Gov.

Sanders is HB1048 which amends the law surrounding the sale of goat, sheep, and whole milk that has not been pasteurized. This bill will now allow for raw milk products to be sold at places outside of the farm where it came from, including farmers markets.

It will also require each jug of milk that is sold to have a warning label on it stating that it is raw milk and will need to have contact information for the farm where the milk came from.