Bill Text: NY A01874 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires all contracts with private food service management companies to disclose ingredients lists and nutritional information for all the meals they provide school districts; provides that the private food service management company shall be required to consolidate nutritional information for any meal that is comprised of separate individual ingredients; requires such school districts to publish such ingredients lists and nutritional information on their district's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-03 - substituted by s6289c [A01874 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01874-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1874--C

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
          2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
          and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
          tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
          said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring private food
          service  management  companies to disclose ingredient lists and nutri-
          tional information for all the meals they provide school districts and
          requiring such school districts to publish this information  on  their
          website

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 924 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 924. Ingredient and nutritional information requirements.  a.    All
     4  contracts  entered  into for the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand
     5  twenty-four school year, and thereafter, to provide, maintain and  oper-
     6  ate cafeteria or restaurant service by a private food service management
     7  company  shall  include  provisions  requiring such private food service
     8  management company to disclose ingredients lists and nutritional  infor-
     9  mation  to  school  districts  for all meals that such company provides.
    10  The private food service management company shall be required to consol-
    11  idate nutritional information for any meal that is comprised of separate
    12  individual ingredients.  School  districts  and  boards  of  cooperative
    13  educational services shall have no responsibility to provide nutritional
    14  information except pursuant to subdivision b of this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04898-08-2
        A. 1874--C                          2

     1    b.  All  ingredients  lists  and  nutritional  information provided to
     2  school districts shall be published and publicly shared on  such  school
     3  district's website.
     4    §  2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.  Effective immediately,
     5  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
     6  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
     7  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.