Bill Amendment: TX SB25 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty.

Status: 2025-06-22 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB25 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB25-House_Amendment_H_2_17-VanDeaver.html

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Amend CSSB 25 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  On page 10, line 7, strike "431.0815 and 431.0816" and substitute "431.0815, 431.0816, and 431.0817".

(2)  On page 13, line 20, strike "or".

(3)  On page 13, line 22, between "establishment" and the underlined period, insert the following:

; or

(4)  a product regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service

(4)  On page 14, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:

Sec. 431.0817.  FEDERAL PREEMPTION. On and after September 1, 2025, and the effective date of a federal law, regulation, or guidance issued by the United States Food and Drug Administration or the United States Department of Agriculture, Section 431.0815 has no effect if:

(1)  for a specific ingredient, including a food additive and color additive, listed under Section 431.0815(a), the law, regulation, or guidance:

(A)  prohibits the use of the ingredient;

(B)  imposes conditions on the use of the ingredient, including a condition requiring a warning or disclosure statement; or

(C)  determines an ingredient or class of ingredients is safe for human consumption; or

(2)  the law, regulation, or guidance requires a labeling statement relating to ultra-processed or processed foods.