Requires public schools that have 500 or more students practicing Halal and/or Kosher to offer Halal food options and/or Kosher food options during lunch.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3811
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, M. G. MILLER, WEPRIN, COLTON, SIMOTAS,
DAVILA, RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Education
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 public school that has five hundred
4 or more students practicing Halal shall offer Halal food options during
5 lunch.
6 § 915-b. Kosher food options. Any public school that has five hundred
7 or more students practicing Kosher shall offer Kosher food options
8 during lunch.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
10 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
11 ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
12 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
13 or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08248-01-9
