Bill Text: NY A05404 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to reimbursement for certain lunch meals served during the declared COVID-19 state of emergency.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A05404 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05404-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5404

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend chapter 537 of the laws of 1976, relating to paid,  free
          and  reduced  price  breakfast  for  eligible pupils in certain school
          districts, in relation to reimbursement for certain lunch meals served
          during the declared COVID-19 state of emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  a of section 5 of chapter 537 of the laws of
     2  1976, relating to paid, free and reduced price  breakfast  for  eligible
     3  pupils  in  certain school districts, as added by section 2 of part B of
     4  chapter 56 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     5    a. Notwithstanding any monetary limitations  with  respect  to  school
     6  lunch  programs  contained  in  any  law or regulation, for school lunch
     7  meals served in the school year commencing July 1, 2019 and each July  1
     8  thereafter,  a  school food authority shall be eligible for a lunch meal
     9  State subsidy of twenty-five cents, which shall include any annual State
    10  subsidy received by such school food authority under any other provision
    11  of State law, for any school lunch  meal  served  by  such  school  food
    12  authority;  provided  that  the  school  food authority certifies to the
    13  State Education Department through the application submitted pursuant to
    14  subdivision b of this section that such food authority has purchased  at
    15  least  thirty  percent of its total cost of food products for its school
    16  lunch service program from New York state farmers, growers, producers or
    17  processors in the preceding school year. School food  authorities  shall
    18  be  eligible  for  such  reimbursement  for  all  lunch  meals served to
    19  students in accordance with either the National School  Lunch  Act,  the
    20  Summer  Seamless  Option,  or the Summer Food Service Program during the
    21  declared COVID-19 state of emergency as set out in executive  order  202
    22  of 2020 and as continued in each subsequent executive order.
    23    § 2.  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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