Bill Text: NY A04750 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-11 - print number 4750a [A04750 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A04750-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4750--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, M. G. MILLER, WEPRIN, COLTON, SIMOTAS, DAVILA, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assem- bly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 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. LBD08963-03-8
