Assembly Bill A341

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires school lunch periods to be scheduled between two and one-half hours and four hours after the start of the school day

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A341 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S239
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง813, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7439, S5285
2011-2012: A5964, S52
2015-2016: A5696, S193
2017-2018: A4514, S4078, S7068
2019-2020: S2365
2021-2022: S2894
2023-2024: S639

2013-A341 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school lunch periods to be scheduled between two and a half hours and four hours after the start of the school day.

2013-A341 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   341

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to scheduling school
  lunch periods

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section 813 of the education law, as added by chapter 296
of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  S 813. School lunch period; scheduling.  Each school shall schedule [a
reasonable time] TIMES FOR STUDENTS  TO  CONSUME  LUNCH  THAT  BEGIN  NO
EARLIER  THAN  TWO AND ONE-HALF HOURS AND NO LATER THAN FOUR HOURS AFTER
THE START OF THE SCHOOL DAY for each full day pupil  attending  pre-kin-
dergarten through grade twelve [to consume lunch].
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the first of August occurring in
the year two years after which this act becomes a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00204-01-3

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