Assembly Bill A2959

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Permits school districts to favor locally sourced goods

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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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2023-A2959 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §103, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7011
2019-2020: A6733
2021-2022: A7482

2023-A2959 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits school districts to favor locally sourced goods.

2023-A2959 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2959
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. WOERNER, OTIS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation  to  facilitating
   school districts in purchasing local agricultural products
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (b), (b-1) and (c) of subdivision 9  of  section
 103  of the general municipal law, paragraphs (b) and (c) as amended and
 paragraph (b-1) as added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2017, are  amended
 to read as follows:
   (b)  [the  amount  that  may  be  expended by a school district in any
 fiscal year for such purchases shall not exceed an amount equal to twen-
 ty cents multiplied by the total number  of  days  in  the  school  year
 multiplied by the total enrollment of such school district;
   (b-1) the amount that may be expended by a board of cooperative educa-
 tional  services  in any fiscal year for such purchases shall not exceed
 an amount equal to twenty cents multiplied by the total number  of  days
 in  the  school  year  multiplied  by  the  number of students receiving
 services by such board of cooperative educational services at facilities
 operated by a board of cooperative educational services;
   (c)] all such purchases shall be administered pursuant to  regulations
 promulgated by the commissioner of education. Such regulations shall: be
 developed  in  consultation  with  the  commissioner  of agriculture and
 markets to accommodate and promote the provisions of the  farm-to-school
 program established pursuant to subdivision five-b of section sixteen of
 the  agriculture  and  markets law and subdivision thirty-one of section
 three hundred five of the education law as added by chapter two  of  the
 laws  of  two  thousand  [two]  ONE;  ensure  that  the prices paid by a
 district or board of cooperative educational services for any  items  so
 purchased  do  not  exceed  the prices of comparable local farm products
 that are available to districts through their usual  purchases  of  such
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06353-01-3
              

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