Bill Text: NY A04328 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A04328 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04328-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4328 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 30, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA, SIMOTAS, CRESPO, COLTON, WALTER, GOODELL, MOYA, BROOK-KRASNY, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, COOK, CROUCH, PERRY, RAMOS, RIVERA, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch 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 915-a 2 to read as follows: 3 S 915-A. HALAL FOOD OPTIONS. IN ANY CITY HAVING OVER ONE MILLION 4 INHABITANTS, EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL SHALL OFFER HALAL FOOD OPTIONS DURING 5 LUNCH. 6 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 7 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 8 ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple- 9 mentation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on 10 or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01586-01-5