Directs the boards of trustees of SUNY and CUNY to create a free or reduced meal plan to aid students whose household incomes are below the federal poverty line, students participating in educational opportunity programs under section three hundred fifty-five-d of this article and students receiving federal Pell grants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2059
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. WEBB, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to a free or reduced food
plan for certain students enrolled at state and city universities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. The state university trustees shall create a free or reduced meal
4 plan to aid students whose household incomes are below the federal
5 poverty line, students participating in educational opportunity programs
6 under section three hundred fifty-five-d of this article and students
7 receiving federal Pell grants.
8 § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new
9 subdivision 24 to read as follows:
10 24. The city university trustees shall create a free or reduced meal
11 plan to aid students whose household incomes are below the federal
12 poverty line, students participating in educational opportunity programs
13 under section three hundred fifty-five-d of this chapter and students
14 receiving federal Pell grants.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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