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S01032 Summary:

BILL NO	S01032
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	AVELLA
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add S915-a, Ed L
Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million that have at least 25% of students practicing a religious faith with specific dietary restrictions to offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions.

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S01032 Actions:

BILL NO	S01032
01/08/2015	REFERRED TO EDUCATION
05/28/2015	COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE
06/02/2015	REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO EDUCATION
01/06/2016	REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE

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S01032 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1032
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
          public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer
          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 a new section  915-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  915-a.  Food  options. In any city having over one million inhabit-
     4  ants, any public school that has twenty-five percent or more of students
     5  practicing a religious faith with specific  dietary  restrictions  shall
     6  offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     8  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     9  ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the  imple-
    10  mentation  of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on
    11  or before such date.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02060-01-5

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