Bill Text: CA SB20 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Food facilities: menu labeling.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-10-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 415, Statutes of 2011. [SB20 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB20-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 20	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        DECEMBER 6, 2010

   An act relating to food facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 20, as introduced, Padilla. Food facilities: menu labeling.
   Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, requires, on and
after January 1, 2011, each food facility in the state that meets
specified criteria to disclose calorie content information per
standard menu item, as specified. The State Department of Public
Health administers and local enforcement agencies enforce this code.
Existing law provides that, on and after July 1, 2009, a food
facility that violates these provisions is guilty of an infraction.
   Existing law, the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, requires
certain restaurants and similar retail food establishments to
disclose nutrient content information, as specified, and provides
that certain state and local nutrient content information
requirements that are not identical to the federal law are preempted.

   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would conform state menu labeling requirements to
federal requirements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) In 2008, the Legislature enacted Section 114094 of the Health
and Safety Code to provide consumers within California with better
access to nutritional information about prepared foods sold at food
facilities with at least 20 locations with the same name in the state
so that consumers can understand the nutritional value of available
foods.
   (b) On March 23, 2010, the federal Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act was enacted to, among other things, provide
consumers in all states with access to nutritional information about
the prepared foods sold at restaurants or similar retail food
establishments that are part of a chain with 20 or more locations
doing business under the same name.
  SEC. 2.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would conform state menu labeling requirements with federal menu
labeling requirements.