STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4950
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 3, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. DIAZ, LATIMER -- 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
          Halal 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. Halal food options. In  any  city  having  over  one  million
     4  inhabitants,  each  public  school shall offer Halal food options during
     5  lunch.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     8  ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
     9  mentation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made  on
    10  or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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