Two ballot measures that will determine the fate of Colorado’s universal school meals program hang in the balance in Tuesday’s election.

Propositions LL and MM, if both pass, would direct tens of millions of dollars in new funding to Healthy School Meals for All , which was approved by voters in 2022 to feed all students across the state. While the program distributed more than 24 million new meals in just its first year, it has proved more costly than supporters initially believed.

Proponents have warned that, should both measures fail, the program may be curtailed and provide universal meals only to low-income schools.

Prop. LL would allow the meals program to keep money it’s already collected. Under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the state must estimate how much money it needs t

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