Bill Text: NY A04820 | 2021-2022 | 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 lunch service programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A04820 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04820-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4820

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. McMAHON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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. Section 5 of chapter 537 of the laws of 1976,  relating  to
     2  paid,  free  and  reduced price breakfast for eligible pupils in certain
     3  school districts, as added by section 2 of part B of chapter 56  of  the
     4  laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     5    §  5.  a.  Notwithstanding  any  monetary  limitations with respect to
     6  school lunch programs contained in any law  or  regulation,  for  school
     7  lunch  meals  served in the school year commencing July 1, 2019 and each
     8  July 1 thereafter, a school food authority shall be eligible for a lunch
     9  meal State subsidy of twenty-five cents, which shall include any  annual
    10  State  subsidy  received  by  such school food authority under any other
    11  provision of State law, for any school lunch meal served by such  school
    12  food authority; provided that the school food authority certifies to the
    13  State Education Department through the application submitted pursuant to
    14  subdivision  b of this section that such food authority has purchased at
    15  least thirty percent of its total cost of food products for  its  school
    16  lunch service program from New York state farmers, growers, producers or
    17  processors  in  the  preceding school year. Commencing July 1, 2021, and
    18  each July 1 thereafter, a school food  authority  shall  be  allowed  to
    19  attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state
    20  farmers,  growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast
    21  program to  the  thirty  percent  of  costs  for  school  lunch  service
    22  programs.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    b.  The State Education Department, in cooperation with the Department
     2  of Agriculture and Markets, shall develop an application for school food
     3  authorities to seek an additional State subsidy pursuant to this section
     4  in a timeline and format prescribed by the  commissioner  of  education.
     5  Such  application  shall  include,  but not be limited to, documentation
     6  demonstrating the school food authority's total food purchases  for  its
     7  school  lunch service program, and documentation demonstrating its total
     8  food purchases and percentages for such program, permitted to be counted
     9  under this section, from New York State farmers, growers,  producers  or
    10  processors  in  the  preceding  school  year. The application shall also
    11  include an attestation from the school food authority's chief  operating
    12  officer  that  it purchased at least thirty percent of its total cost of
    13  food products permitted to be counted under this section for its  school
    14  lunch service program from New York State farmers, growers, producers or
    15  processors  in  the  preceding school year in order to meet the require-
    16  ments for this additional State subsidy. School food  authorities  shall
    17  be required to annually apply for this subsidy.
    18    c.  The  State Education Department shall annually publish information
    19  on its website commencing on September 1,  2019  and  each  September  1
    20  thereafter,  relating to each school food authority that applied for and
    21  received this additional State subsidy, including but  not  limited  to:
    22  the  school food authority name, student enrollment, average daily lunch
    23  participation, total food costs for its school  lunch  service  program,
    24  total  cost  of  food  products  for  its  school  lunch service program
    25  purchased from New York State farmers, growers, producers or processors,
    26  and the percent of total food costs that were purchased  from  New  York
    27  State  farmers,  growers,  producers  or processors for its school lunch
    28  service program.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.