New York Assembly Bill A05895 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5895 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring public schools to provide at least one plant- or nut-based milk option 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. Milk options. Each public school in the state offering a 4 dairy-based milk option during scheduled meal periods shall offer at 5 least one plant- or nut-based milk option. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 7 the date upon which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all 8 school years commencing on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01754-02-3