S 599: Establishes a farm-to-school food service reimbursement program for school districts which have purchased at least thirty percent of their total food products, including both dairy and non-dairy products, for their food service programs from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors, based upon the number of federally reimbursable meals served to students under such program agreements entered into by the commissioner and such districts.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 599 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 establishing a farm- to-school food service reimbursement program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3641 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 18 to read as follows: 3 18. Farm-to-school food service reimbursement program. For the two 4 thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year and thereaft- 5 er, the commissioner shall reimburse districts with school food service 6 programs an additional twenty-five cents per school lunch meal in excess 7 of federal and state rates of reimbursement, provided that such 8 districts have purchased at least thirty percent of their total food 9 products, including both dairy and non-dairy products, for their food 10 service programs from New York state farmers, growers, producers or 11 processors, based upon the number of federally reimbursable meals served 12 to students under such program agreements entered into by the commis- 13 sioner and such districts. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02019-01-5