Senate Bill S7847

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to eligible purchases by school lunch service programs receiving additional state subsidies

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S7847 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10320
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Chap 537 of 1976
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4315, A4820
2023-2024: S423, A870

2019-S7847 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-S7847 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7847 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7847
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 26, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 5 of chapter 537 of the laws of 1976,  relating  to
 paid,  free  and  reduced price breakfast for eligible pupils in certain
 school districts, as added by section 2 of part B of chapter 56  of  the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   §  5.  a.  Notwithstanding  any  monetary  limitations with respect to
 school lunch programs contained in any law  or  regulation,  for  school
 lunch  meals  served in the school year commencing July 1, 2019 and each
 July 1 thereafter, a school food authority shall be eligible for a lunch
 meal State subsidy of twenty-five cents, which shall include any  annual
 State  subsidy  received  by  such school food authority under any other
 provision of State law, for any school lunch meal served by such  school
 food authority; provided that the school food authority certifies to the
 State Education Department through the application submitted pursuant to
 subdivision  b of this section that such food authority has purchased at
 least thirty percent of its total cost of food products for  its  school
 lunch service program from New York state farmers, growers, producers or
 processors  in  the  preceding school year. COMMENCING JULY 1, 2020, AND
 EACH JULY 1 THEREAFTER, A SCHOOL FOOD  AUTHORITY  SHALL  BE  ALLOWED  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.
   b.  The State Education Department, in cooperation with the Department
 of Agriculture and Markets, shall develop an application for school food
 authorities to seek an additional State subsidy pursuant to this section
 in a timeline and format prescribed by the  commissioner  of  education.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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