Bill Text: NY A09995 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all elementary and secondary schools and boards of cooperative educational services to establish school meal charge policies in order to ensure a consistent and transparent approach is applied in instances of unpaid meal charges and the collection of delinquent debt.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-07 - referred to education [A09995 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09995-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9995 IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PELLEGRINO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school meal charge policies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 57 to read as follows: 3 57. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate rules 4 and regulations requiring all elementary and secondary schools and 5 boards of cooperative educational services to establish school meal 6 charge policies in order to ensure a consistent and transparent approach 7 is applied in instances of unpaid meal charges and the collection of 8 delinquent debt. Such policies shall include, but not be limited to, 9 information for parents or persons in parental relation and relevant 10 school staff on available meal options for students who have insuffi- 11 cient funds to purchase a meal at time of service, how delinquent meal 12 charge debt is collected, and available payment options. When developing 13 meal charge policies, schools and boards of cooperative educational 14 services shall ensure that such policies do not have a negative impact 15 on children who do not have sufficient funds, and that the identifica- 16 tion of students with insufficient funds to pay for school meals is 17 minimal. Such policies shall prohibit the use of alternate meals as an 18 option when students do not have sufficient funds to pay for a meal at 19 time of service. Such policies must be provided in writing to all 20 students at the start of each school year, to students who transfer to 21 the school during the school year, and, at the discretion of the school 22 or board of cooperative educational services, throughout the school 23 year. Such policies shall also be posted on the school's internet 24 website, if one exists. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11478-03-8