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Assembly Bill A1497

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires public schools in N.Y. city to offer food options

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2023-A1497 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §915-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7231
2019-2020: A4318
2021-2022: A8923
2025-2026: A1731

2023-A1497 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million that have students practicing a religious faith with specific dietary restrictions to offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions upon the students' request.

2023-A1497 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1497
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, CRUZ, VANEL, ROZIC, D. ROSENTHAL, EPSTEIN
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to requiring public
   schools in any city with a population over one million to  offer  food
   options during lunch

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  915-a
 to read as follows:
   §  915-A.  FOOD  OPTIONS. IN ANY CITY HAVING OVER ONE MILLION INHABIT-
 ANTS, ANY PUBLIC SCHOOL THAT HAS STUDENTS PRACTICING A  RELIGIOUS  FAITH
 WITH  SPECIFIC  DIETARY RESTRICTIONS SHALL OFFER FOOD OPTIONS WHICH MEET
 SUCH DIETARY RESTRICTIONS UPON THE STUDENTS' REQUEST.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
 or before such date.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01460-01-3

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