Bill Text: NY A04328 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A04328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04328-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4328
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 30, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEPULVEDA,  SIMOTAS, CRESPO, COLTON, WALTER,
         GOODELL, MOYA, BROOK-KRASNY, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.
         BRENNAN,  COOK, CROUCH, PERRY, RAMOS, RIVERA, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL, STECK
         -- 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
         Halal 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 a new section  915-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  915-A.  HALAL  FOOD  OPTIONS.  IN  ANY CITY HAVING OVER ONE MILLION
    4  INHABITANTS, EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL SHALL OFFER HALAL  FOOD  OPTIONS  DURING
    5  LUNCH.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    7  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    8  ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the  imple-
    9  mentation  of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on
   10  or before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01586-01-5