Bill Text: NY S06338 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires schools that have a Muslim or Jewish population greater than or equal to ten percent of the student body to offer Halal food options and/or Kosher food options during lunch.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-25 - PRINT NUMBER 6338A [S06338 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6338

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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  to  offer  Halal food options and Kosher 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 two new sections
     2  915-a and 915-b to read as follows:
     3    § 915-a. Halal food options.  Any public school that has five  hundred
     4  or  more students practicing Halal shall offer Halal food options during
     5  lunch.
     6    § 915-b. Kosher food options. Any public school that has five  hundred
     7  or  more  students  practicing  Kosher  shall  offer Kosher food options
     8  during lunch.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    11  ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
    12  mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
    13  or before such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06318-01-3