Bill Text: NY A06335 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6335 (Prior Session Legislation)

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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A06335 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06335-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6335--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.
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