Delaware House Bill 79 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-6)
Status: Passed on July 17 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-07-17 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

This bill requires the State food safety standards for restaurants to include a system for requiring healthy beverages to be offered as the default beverage with a combination childrens meal inclusive of a drink, sold together at a unit price. It does not prohibit the restaurants ability to sell, or a customers ability to choose, a substitute or alternative beverage as-requested by a customer. This effectively creates an opt in instead of an opt out for many sugar-rich drink choices for children.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Regarding Default Beverages In Childrens Meals In Restaurants.

Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Catherine Cloutier [R]
Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]
Sen. Anthony Delcollo [R]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. David McBride [D]	Sen. Harris McDowell [D]
Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Sen. David Wilson [R]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. David Bentz [D]	Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]
Rep. Kevin Hensley [R]	Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]
Rep. Raymond Seigfried [D]

2019-06-27 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 15 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-06-20 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 28 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-07-17		Signed by Governor
2019-06-27		Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO
2019-06-27		Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2019-06-21		Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
2019-06-20		Passed By House. Votes: 28 YES 11 NO 2 ABSENT
2019-06-20		Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Passed In House by Voice Vote
2019-06-20		Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Passed In House by Voice Vote
2019-06-20		Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2019-06-20		Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2019-06-12		Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
2019-05-30		Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47551
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47551&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB79
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocumentEngrossment?engrossmentId=23700&docTypeId=6
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41025
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41178