STATE OF NEW YORK
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639
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 5, 2023
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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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