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Assembly Bill A6619

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the state subsidy for school lunch meals

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2025-A6619 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5057
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Chap 537 of 1976

2025-A6619 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the state subsidy for school lunch meals.

2025-A6619 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6619
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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 increasing  the  state  subsidy  for  school
   lunch meals

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision b 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 amended by section 32-a of part A
 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   b. 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, 2022 and each July  1
 thereafter, a school food authority shall be eligible for a State subsi-
 dy  equal to [$0.1901] $0.25 per [free and paid] school lunch meal[, and
 $0.0519 per reduced-price lunch meal,] for any school lunch meal  served
 by  such  school food authority; provided that the school food authority
 certifies to the Department  of  Agriculture  and  Markets  through  the
 application  submitted  pursuant  to  subdivision c 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09089-01-5

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