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Program Description Handbook 2018-19

School Lunch Programs That Have Purchased at Least 30% of Their Total Food Products from NYS Farmers, Growers, Producers, or Processors

DESCRIPTION:

Section 2, Part B of Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2018 Ìýprovides that ÌýNotwithstandingÌý anyÌý monetaryÌý limitationsÌý withÌý respectÌý to schoolÌý lunchÌý programsÌý containedÌý in any law or regulation, for school lunch meals served in the school year commencing July 1, 2019Ìý andÌý each July 1 thereafter, a school food authority shall be eligible for a lunch mealÌýState subsidy of twenty-five cents, which shall include any annual State subsidy received by such school foodÌý authorityÌý underÌý anyÌý other provisionÌý 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 that such food authority has purchasedÌý at leastÌý thirtyÌý 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.

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Federal Regulation:Ìý

State Statute: ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Education Law §

State Regulation: ÌýÌýÌýÌý 8NYCRR Part

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December 10, 2018 - 2:49pm