Bill Text: NY S00639 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school lunch periods to be scheduled between two and one-half hours and four hours after the start of the school day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00639 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00639-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           639

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  scheduling  school
          lunch periods

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 813 of the education law, as added by  chapter  296
     2  of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 813. School lunch period; scheduling.  Each school shall schedule [a
     4  reasonable  time]  times  for  students  to  consume lunch that begin no
     5  earlier than two and one-half hours and no later than four  hours  after
     6  the  start  of the school day for each full day pupil attending pre-kin-
     7  dergarten through grade twelve [to consume lunch].
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of  August  occurring  in
     9  the year two years after which this act becomes a law.






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