Bill Text: NY A00894 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 894

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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - enacting clause stricken [A00894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00894-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           894

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred 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 which meet dietary restrictions of certain students

          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. 1. 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 at each meal
     7  offered.
     8    2. Any public school in a city with a population  of  one  million  or
     9  more  with fewer than twenty-five percent of students practicing a reli-
    10  gious faith with specific dietary restrictions shall offer food  options
    11  at  each  meal  that  meet  such dietary restrictions upon any student's
    12  request and in  sufficient  amounts  to  meet  the  needs  of  any  such
    13  students,  but  shall  not  otherwise  be  required  to  offer such food
    14  options.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    17  ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
    18  mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
    19  or before such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00657-01-3