Bill Text: NY S04414 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4414 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S04414 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04414-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4414
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 14, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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  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.
                                                                   LBD00749-01-7