Senate Bill S1284

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Reimbursement for certain lunch meals served during the declared COVID-19 state of emergency

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • 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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2023-S1284 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Chap 537 of 1976
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S4561

2023-S1284 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S1284 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1284 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1284
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. HINCHEY, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  a of section 5 of chapter 537 of the laws of
 1976, relating to paid, free and reduced price  breakfast  for  eligible
 pupils in certain school districts, as amended by section 22-b of part A
 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  Notwithstanding  any  monetary  limitations with respect to school
 lunch programs contained in any law  or  regulation,  for  school  lunch
 meals  served in the school year commencing July 1, 2019 and ending June
 30, 2022, a school food authority shall be eligible  for  a  lunch  meal
 State subsidy of twenty-five cents, which shall include any annual State
 subsidy received by such school food authority under any other provision
 of  State  law,  for  any  school  lunch meal served by such school food
 authority; provided that the school  food  authority  certifies  to  the
 State Education Department through the application submitted pursuant to
 subdivision  c of this section that such food authority has purchased at
 least thirty percent of its total cost of food products for  its  school
 lunch service program from New York state farmers, growers, producers or
 processors  in  the preceding school year. SCHOOL FOOD AUTHORITIES SHALL
 BE ELIGIBLE FOR  SUCH  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR  ALL  LUNCH  MEALS  SERVED  TO
 STUDENTS  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH EITHER THE NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT, THE
 SUMMER SEAMLESS OPTION, OR THE SUMMER FOOD SERVICE  PROGRAM  DURING  THE
 DECLARED  COVID-19  STATE OF EMERGENCY AS SET OUT IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 202
 OF 2020 AND AS CONTINUED IN EACH SUBSEQUENT EXECUTIVE ORDER.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04342-01-3
              

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