Bill Text: NY A07102 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A07102 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07102-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7102
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 8, 2019
                                       ___________
        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
          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    § 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    § 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.
                                                                   LBD07700-01-9
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