 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1078
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the Drink  Up
          Act requiring public schools to provide water during lunch
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "Drink Up Act".
     3    §  2.  The  education  law is amended by adding a new section 916-c to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 916-c. Water during lunch; requirement.  Every public  school  shall
     6  offer  water in a sealed bottled container as an additional drink option
     7  to any student during lunch at no cost to such student.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    10  ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
    11  mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
    12  or before such date.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02372-01-5
Enacts the Drink Up Act

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