STATE OF NEW YORK
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8587
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2024
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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 the amount of state subsidies for school
lunches
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision b of section 5 of chapter 537 of the laws of
2 1976, relating to paid, free and reduced price breakfast for eligible
3 pupils in certain school districts, as amended by section 22-b of part A
4 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
5 b. Notwithstanding any monetary limitations with respect to school
6 lunch programs contained in any law or regulation, for school lunch
7 meals served in the school year commencing July 1, 2022 and each July 1
8 thereafter, a school food authority shall be eligible for a lunch meal
9 State subsidy of an additional twenty-five cents, which shall include
10 any annual State subsidy received by such school food authority under
11 any other provision of State law, for any school lunch meal served by
12 such school food authority; provided that the school food authority
13 certifies to the Department of Agriculture and Markets through the
14 application submitted pursuant to subdivision c of this section that
15 such food authority has purchased at least thirty percent of its total
16 cost of food products for its school lunch service program from New York
17 state farmers, growers, producers or processors in the preceding school
18 year.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13892-01-3
