Assembly Bill A6256

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Establishes a task force on food, nutrition and physical education for New York state schools; appropriation

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  • 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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2011-A6256 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3930
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2998, S2874
2013-2014: A691, S1439
2015-2016: A3306

2011-A6256 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a task force on food, nutrition and physical education to investigate and establish appropriate and healthy meal plans and physical education standards for New York state schools; appropriates funds therefor.

2011-A6256 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6256

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 11, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ROBINSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Education

AN  ACT to establish a task force on food, nutrition and physical educa-
  tion to investigate and establish appropriate and healthy  meal  plans
  and physical education standards for New York state schools; making an
  appropriation therefor and providing for the repeal of such provisions
  upon expiration thereof

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The commissioner of health is hereby directed to  create  a
task  force on food, nutrition and physical education to investigate and
establish appropriate and healthy  meal  plans  and  physical  education
standards for New York state schools.
  S  2.  The task force shall consist of 15 members and shall be chaired
by the commissioner of health or his designee.  Five  members  shall  be
appointed  by the commissioner of health; two members shall be appointed
upon the recommendation of the commissioner of education; three  members
shall  be appointed upon the recommendation of the governor; two members
shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the speaker of the  assem-
bly;  and  two members shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the
temporary president of the senate. The commissioner of health may invite
appropriate ad hoc representatives from other state and/or  local  agen-
cies  to  serve  on the task force. Vacancies on the task force shall be
filled in the manner provided for original appointments.
  S 3. The task force shall report its findings, conclusions and  recom-
mendations  to  the  governor, temporary president of the senate and the
speaker of the assembly by September 1, 2013.
  S 4. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars  ($25,000),  or  so  much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of
health  from any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00250-01-1

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