Senate Bill S4561

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Reimbursement for certain lunch meals served during the declared COVID-19 state of emergency

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  • 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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2021-S4561 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5404
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Chap 537 of 1976
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S1284

2021-S4561 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to reimbursement for certain lunch meals served during the declared COVID-19 state of emergency.

2021-S4561 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4561 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4561
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 reimbursement for certain lunch meals served
   during the declared COVID-19 state of emergency
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  a of 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:
   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. SCHOOL FOOD  AUTHORITIES  SHALL
 BE  ELIGIBLE  FOR  SUCH  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR  ALL  LUNCH  MEALS SERVED TO
 STUDENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH EITHER THE NATIONAL SCHOOL  LUNCH  ACT,  THE
 SUMMER  SEAMLESS  OPTION,  OR THE SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM DURING THE
 DECLARED COVID-19 STATE OF EMERGENCY AS SET OUT IN EXECUTIVE  ORDER  202
 OF 2020 AND AS CONTINUED IN EACH SUBSEQUENT EXECUTIVE ORDER.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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