Bill Text: NY A00870 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast and lunch service programs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-4)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-20 - print number 870a [A00870 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           870

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McMAHON, BUTTENSCHON, LUPARDO, JACKSON, SILLITTI,
          JONES,  L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, STIRPE, WALLACE, MAGNAREL-
          LI, WOERNER, BRONSON, CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend chapter 537 of the laws of 1976, relating to paid,  free
          and  reduced  price  breakfast  for  eligible pupils in certain school
          districts, in relation to purchases of food  products  from  New  York
          state farmers, growers, producers or processors

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions b and c of section 5 of  chapter  537  of  the
     2  laws  of  1976,  relating  to paid, free and reduced price breakfast for
     3  eligible pupils in certain school districts, as amended by section  22-b
     4  of  part  A  of  chapter  56 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    b. Notwithstanding any monetary limitations  with  respect  to  school
     7  lunch  programs  contained  in  any  law or regulation, for school lunch
     8  meals served in the school year commencing July 1, 2022 and each July  1
     9  thereafter,  a  school food authority shall be eligible for a lunch meal
    10  State subsidy of twenty-five cents, which shall include any annual State
    11  subsidy received by such school food authority under any other provision
    12  of State law, for any school lunch  meal  served  by  such  school  food
    13  authority;  provided  that  the  school  food authority certifies to the
    14  Department of Agriculture and Markets through the application  submitted
    15  pursuant  to  subdivision c of this section that such food authority has
    16  purchased at least thirty percent of its total cost of food products for
    17  its school lunch service program from New York state  farmers,  growers,
    18  producers or processors in the preceding school year. Commencing July 1,
    19  2023,  and  each  July  1  thereafter,  a school food authority shall be
    20  allowed to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New
    21  York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 870                              2

     1  breakfast program to the  thirty  percent  of  costs  for  school  lunch
     2  service programs.
     3    c.  The  Department of Agriculture and Markets in cooperation with the
     4  State Education Department, shall develop an application for school food
     5  authorities to seek an additional State subsidy pursuant to this section
     6  in a timeline and format prescribed by the commissioner  of  agriculture
     7  and  markets.  Such  application  shall  include, but not be limited to,
     8  documentation demonstrating  the  school  food  authority's  total  food
     9  purchases for its school lunch service program, and documentation demon-
    10  strating  its  total  food  purchases  and percentages for such program,
    11  permitted to be counted under this section, from New York State farmers,
    12  growers, producers or processors  in  the  preceding  school  year.  The
    13  application  shall  also  include  an  attestation  from the school food
    14  authority's chief operating officer that it purchased  at  least  thirty
    15  percent  of  its  total  cost  of food products, permitted to be counted
    16  under this section, for its school lunch service program from  New  York
    17  State  farmers, growers, producers or processors in the preceding school
    18  year in order to meet the requirements for this additional State  subsi-
    19  dy. School food authorities shall be required to annually apply for this
    20  subsidy. After reviewing school food authorities' completed applications
    21  for an additional State subsidy pursuant to this section, the Department
    22  of  Agriculture and Markets shall certify to the State Education Depart-
    23  ment the school food authorities  approved  for  such  additional  State
    24  subsidy  and  the  State  Education Department shall pay such additional
    25  State subsidy to such school food authorities.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.