Bill Text: NY S05151 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5151 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits schools or school districts from filing a lawsuit against a student's parent or guardian for unpaid meal fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-29 - SIGNED CHAP.315 [S05151 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05151-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5151--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 25, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting schools or
          school  districts  from filing a lawsuit against a student's parent or
          guardian for unpaid meal fees

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

     1    Section 1.  Paragraph iv of subdivision e of section 908 of the educa-
     2  tion  law,  as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of
     3  2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    iv. take any action directed at a pupil to collect unpaid school  meal
     5  fees.  A  school or school district may attempt to collect unpaid school
     6  meal fees from a student's parent or guardian, but shall not use a  debt
     7  collector,  as  defined  in  section  eight hundred three of the federal
     8  consumer credit protection act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1692a or file  a  lawsuit
     9  against such student's parent or guardian; or
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09900-05-1