Bill Text: NY A04820 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4820 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2021 ___________ 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. LBD07275-01-1A. 4820 2 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.