A1087 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Enacts the "making equitable and alternative lunches (MEAL) act"; requires a public school to offer a plant-based food option, a halal food option and a kosher food option as an alternative to every meal or snack offered in food service to any student who chooses such alternative meal or snack as an option.
- Title
- Relates to enacting the making equitable and alternative lunches (MEAL) act
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Education
- Introduced
- 2025-01-08
- Law section
- Education Law
Sponsors
- Chantel Jackson Assembly Member, District 79
Co-sponsors
- Alicia Hyndman Assembly Member, District 29
- David I. Weprin Assembly Member, District 24
Heard in committee
- Education NY State Assembly committee