Requires schools that have a Muslim or Jewish population greater than or equal to ten percent of the student body to offer Halal food options and/or Kosher food options during lunch.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6338--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 17, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain
public schools to offer Halal food options and Kosher food options
during lunch
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding two new sections
2 915-a and 915-b to read as follows:
3 § 915-a. Halal food options. Any school or school district where the
4 board of education or trustees determine that such school or school
5 district has a Muslim population greater than or equal to ten percent of
6 the student body or where Halal food options are otherwise requested by
7 relevant individuals or entities shall offer Halal food options during
8 lunch.
9 § 915-b. Kosher food options. Any school or school district where the
10 board of education or trustees determine that such school or school
11 district has a Jewish population greater than or equal to two percent of
12 the student body or where Kosher food options are otherwise requested by
13 relevant individuals or entities shall offer Kosher food options during
14 lunch.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
17 ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
18 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
19 or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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