Bill Text: NY A08909 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-26 - referred to education [A08909 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08909-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8909

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- 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    §  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    § 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 are authorized to be made
    10  and completed on or before such date.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04987-01-3