Bill Text: NY A10320 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school lunch service programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-22 - referred to education [A10320 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10320-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10320

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 22, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. McMAHON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend chapter 537 of the laws of 1976, relating to paid,  free
          and  reduced  price  breakfast  for  eligible pupils in certain school
          districts, in relation to purchases of food  products  from  New  York
          state farmers, growers, producers or processors

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 5 of chapter 537 of the laws of 1976,  relating  to
     2  paid,  free  and  reduced price breakfast for eligible pupils in certain
     3  school districts, as added by section 2 of part B of chapter 56  of  the
     4  laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     5    §  5.  a.  Notwithstanding  any  monetary  limitations with respect to
     6  school lunch programs contained in any law  or  regulation,  for  school
     7  lunch  meals  served in the school year commencing July 1, 2019 and each
     8  July 1 thereafter, a school food authority shall be eligible for a lunch
     9  meal State subsidy of twenty-five cents, which shall include any  annual
    10  State  subsidy  received  by  such school food authority under any other
    11  provision of State law, for any school lunch meal served by such  school
    12  food authority; provided that the school food authority certifies to the
    13  State Education Department through the application submitted pursuant to
    14  subdivision  b of this section that such food authority has purchased at
    15  least thirty percent of its total cost of food products for  its  school
    16  lunch service program from New York state farmers, growers, producers or
    17  processors  in  the  preceding school year. Commencing July 1, 2020, and
    18  each July 1 thereafter, a school food  authority  shall  be  allowed  to
    19  attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state
    20  farmers,  growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast
    21  program to  the  thirty  percent  of  costs  for  school  lunch  service
    22  programs.
    23    b.  The State Education Department, in cooperation with the Department
    24  of Agriculture and Markets, shall develop an application for school food
    25  authorities to seek an additional State subsidy pursuant to this section
    26  in a timeline and format prescribed by the  commissioner  of  education.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  Such  application  shall  include,  but not be limited to, documentation
     2  demonstrating the school food authority's total food purchases  for  its
     3  school  lunch service program, and documentation demonstrating its total
     4  food purchases and percentages for such program, permitted to be counted
     5  under  this  section, from New York State farmers, growers, producers or
     6  processors in the preceding school  year.  The  application  shall  also
     7  include  an attestation from the school food authority's chief operating
     8  officer that it purchased at least thirty percent of its total  cost  of
     9  food  products permitted to be counted under this section for its school
    10  lunch service program from New York State farmers, growers, producers or
    11  processors in the preceding school year in order to  meet  the  require-
    12  ments  for  this additional State subsidy. School food authorities shall
    13  be required to annually apply for this subsidy.
    14    c. The State Education Department shall annually  publish  information
    15  on  its  website  commencing  on  September 1, 2019 and each September 1
    16  thereafter, relating to each school food authority that applied for  and
    17  received  this  additional  State subsidy, including but not limited to:
    18  the school food authority name, student enrollment, average daily  lunch
    19  participation,  total  food  costs for its school lunch service program,
    20  total cost of  food  products  for  its  school  lunch  service  program
    21  purchased from New York State farmers, growers, producers or processors,
    22  and  the  percent  of total food costs that were purchased from New York
    23  State farmers, growers, producers or processors  for  its  school  lunch
    24  service program.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.