Bill Text: NJ S2459 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits service and sale in schools of food and beverage items labeled as not intended or recommended for children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-06 - Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading [S2459 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-S2459-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2459

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 8, 2013

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI

District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits service and sale in schools of food and beverage items labeled as not intended or recommended for children.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning foods and beverages served or sold in schools and supplementing chapter 33 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  A food, snack, or beverage item that has a label indicating that the item is not intended or recommended for children shall not be served, sold, or given away as a free promotion in a public or nonpublic school or anywhere on school property.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that a food, snack, or beverage item which has a label indicating that the item is not intended or recommended for children may not be served, sold, or given away as a free promotion in a public or nonpublic school or anywhere on school property.