Bill Text: NY A10384 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school meal nutritional facts and ingredient list be provided for meals provided to students before serving such meal; allows such information to be posted on the school district website; requires the school district to notify parents or guardians of any changes in the meals, the new nutritional facts, and the itemized list of ingredients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-04 - referred to education [A10384 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10384-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10384

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring school  meal
          nutritional facts and ingredient lists be provided

          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  918-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  918-a.  School  meal  nutritional facts and ingredient list. When a
     4  district or the district's nutrition advisory committee, if  applicable,
     5  determines a prospective meal schedule for students in grades kindergar-
     6  ten  through twelve, the district shall include on such prospective meal
     7  schedule or on the district website the nutritional facts for such meals
     8  and an itemized list of the ingredients used in each meal.  The informa-
     9  tion required pursuant to this section  shall  be  distributed  or  made
    10  available  prior  to the meal being served. If a district shall make any
    11  changes to the meal schedule for the students, then  the  district  must
    12  notify  the  parents  and  guardians  of the change, the new nutritional
    13  facts, and the itemized list of ingredients  prior  to  the  meal  being
    14  served.  The  notification  of change may be made electronically, on the
    15  district website or in any other manner  as  determined  by  the  school
    16  district.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14066-03-0