Bill Text: NJ A900 | 2016-2017 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Women and Children Committee [A900 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A900-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 900

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

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

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

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.