Bill Text: NY S09014 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a farm-to-school food service reimbursement program for school districts which have purchased at least thirty percent of their total food products, including both dairy and non-dairy products, for their food service programs from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors, based upon the number of federally reimbursable meals served to students under such program agreements entered into by the commissioner and such districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S09014 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09014-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9014

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 establishing  a  farm-
          to-school food service reimbursement program

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

     1    Section 1. Section 3641 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
     3    18.  Farm-to-school  food  service  reimbursement program. For the two
     4  thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five school year and thereaft-
     5  er, the commissioner shall reimburse districts with school food  service
     6  programs an additional twenty-five cents per school lunch meal in excess
     7  of  federal  and  state  rates  of  reimbursement,  provided  that  such
     8  districts have purchased at least thirty percent  of  their  total  food
     9  products,  including  both  dairy and non-dairy products, for their food
    10  service programs from New York  state  farmers,  growers,  producers  or
    11  processors, based upon the number of federally reimbursable meals served
    12  to  students  under  such program agreements entered into by the commis-
    13  sioner and such districts.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14950-02-4