STATE OF NEW YORK
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6527--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, DINOWITZ, CRUZ, SEPTIMO, LAVINE,
SEAWRIGHT, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MITAYNES, SILLITTI, JACKSON -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting schools or
school districts from filing a lawsuit against a student's parent or
guardian for unpaid meal fees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph iv of subdivision e of section 908 of the educa-
2 tion law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of
3 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 iv. take any action directed at a pupil to collect unpaid school meal
5 fees. A school or school district may attempt to collect unpaid school
6 meal fees from a student's parent or guardian, but shall not use a debt
7 collector, as defined in section eight hundred three of the federal
8 consumer credit protection act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1692a or file a lawsuit
9 against such student's parent or guardian; or
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09900-04-1
