Bill Text: NY A06788 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the boards of trustees of SUNY and CUNY to create a free or reduced meal plan to aid students whose household incomes are below the federal poverty line, students participating in educational opportunity programs under section three hundred fifty-five-d of this article and students receiving federal Pell grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A06788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06788-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6788

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to a free or reduced food
          plan for certain students enrolled at state and city universities

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

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22.  The state university trustees shall create a free or reduced meal
     4  plan to aid students whose  household  incomes  are  below  the  federal
     5  poverty line, students participating in educational opportunity programs
     6  under  section  three  hundred fifty-five-d of this article and students
     7  receiving federal Pell grants.
     8    § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     9  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
    10    22.  The  city university trustees shall create a free or reduced meal
    11  plan to aid students whose  household  incomes  are  below  the  federal
    12  poverty line, students participating in educational opportunity programs
    13  under  section  three  hundred fifty-five-d of this chapter and students
    14  receiving federal Pell grants.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10797-01-3