Bill Text: NY A06335 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million that have at least 25% of students practicing a religious faith with specific dietary restrictions to offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A06335 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6335
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 6, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- 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
          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    § 915-a. Food options. In any city having over  one  million  inhabit-
     4  ants, any public school that has twenty-five percent or more of students
     5  practicing  a  religious  faith with specific dietary restrictions shall
     6  offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     8  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     9  ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
    10  mentation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made  on
    11  or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07698-01-9