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Feb 23, 2015 |
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Assembly Bill A5445
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
LIFTON
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Clifford Crouch
Peter Lopez
Didi Barrett
2015-A5445 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A5445 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires school districts to purchase food products that are grown, produced, harvested or processed in New York state; allows waiver if price of such local food products is not reasonably competitive; allows waiver if such food products are not available in sufficient quantity.
2015-A5445 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5445 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 23, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON, CROUCH, LOPEZ, BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the purchase of local food products by school districts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 103 of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 269 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows: 9. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section to the contrary, a board of education [may] SHALL, on behalf of its school district, [separately purchase eggs, livestock, fish, dairy products (excluding milk), juice, grains, and species of fresh fruit and vegeta- bles directly from New York State producers or growers, or associations of producers and growers] REQUIRE THAT ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF ALL FOOD PRODUCTS PURCHASED ARE GROWN, PRODUCED OR HARVESTED IN NEW YORK STATE OR THAT ANY PROCESSING OF SUCH FOOD PRODUCTS TAKE PLACE IN FACILITIES LOCATED WITHIN NEW YORK STATE, provided that: (a) [such] AN association of producers or growers THAT PRODUCES OR GROWS EGGS, LIVESTOCK, FISH, DAIRY PRODUCTS (EXCLUDING MILK), JUICE, GRAINS, AND SPECIES OF FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, is comprised of ten or fewer owners of farms who also operate such farms and who have combined to fill the order of a school district as herein authorized, provided however, that a school district may apply to the commissioner of education for permission to purchase from an association of more than ten owners of such farms when no other producers or growers have offered to sell to such school; (b) [the amount that may be expended by a school district in any fiscal year for such purchases shall not exceed an amount equal to twen- ty cents multiplied by the total number of days in the school year multiplied by the total enrollment of such school district; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03035-01-5
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