Bill Text: NY A03811 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public schools that have 500 or more students practicing Halal and/or Kosher to offer Halal food options and/or Kosher food options during lunch.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A03811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03811-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3811
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 31, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ORTIZ, M. G. MILLER, WEPRIN, COLTON, SIMOTAS,
          DAVILA, RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. EPSTEIN --  read  once
          and referred 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.
                                                                   LBD08248-01-9