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Assembly Bill A3306

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Establishes a task force on food, nutrition and physical education for New York state schools; appropriation; repealer

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2015-A3306 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2998
2011-2012: A6256
2013-2014: A691

2015-A3306 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a task force on food, nutrition and physical education to investigate and establish appropriate and healthy meal plans and physical education standards for New York state schools; appropriates funds therefor.

2015-A3306 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3306

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ROBINSON, PERRY -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Education

AN ACT to establish a task force on food, nutrition and physical  educa-
  tion  to  investigate and establish appropriate and healthy meal plans
  and physical education standards for New York state schools; making an
  appropriation therefor and providing for the repeal of such provisions
  upon expiration thereof

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The commissioner of health is hereby directed to create a
task force on food, nutrition and physical education to investigate  and
establish  appropriate  and  healthy  meal  plans and physical education
standards for New York state schools.
  S 2. The task force shall consist of 15 members and shall  be  chaired
by  the  commissioner  of  health or his designee. Five members shall be
appointed by the commissioner of health; two members shall be  appointed
upon  the recommendation of the commissioner of education; three members
shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the governor; two  members
shall  be appointed upon the recommendation of the speaker of the assem-
bly; and two members shall be appointed upon the recommendation  of  the
temporary president of the senate. The commissioner of health may invite
appropriate  ad  hoc representatives from other state and/or local agen-
cies to serve on the task force. Vacancies on the task  force  shall  be
filled in the manner provided for original appointments.
  S  3. The task force shall report its findings, conclusions and recom-
mendations to the governor, temporary president of the  senate  and  the
speaker of the assembly by September 1, 2017.
  S  4.  The  sum  of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of
health from any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to  the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00714-01-5

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