Bill Text: TX HB127 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the types of beverages that may be sold to students on public school campuses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-19 - Left pending in committee [HB127 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB127-Engrossed.html
By: Alvarado, King of Taylor, Lucio III, | H.B. No. 127 | |
Zerwas, Patrick, et al. |
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relating to the types of beverages that may be sold to students on | ||
public school campuses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 12.0021 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.0021. BEVERAGES ALLOWED TO BE SOLD TO STUDENTS ON | ||
PUBLIC SCHOOL CAMPUSES. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), | ||
a public school may not sell or allow to be sold to a student on the | ||
school campus any type of beverage other than the following: | ||
(1) water without added sweetener; | ||
(2) milk with a fat content of one percent or less; | ||
(3) fluid milk substitutions permitted by the United | ||
States Department of Agriculture under 7 C.F.R. Section 210.10; | ||
(4) 100 percent vegetable juice; | ||
(5) 100 percent fruit juice; | ||
(6) zero-calorie electrolyte replacement or | ||
zero-calorie vitamin enhanced water beverages; or | ||
(7) an electrolyte replacement beverage other than one | ||
described by Subdivision (6), but only if the electrolyte | ||
replacement beverage is provided at the discretion of a coach to | ||
students engaged in vigorous physical activity lasting at least one | ||
hour. | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply: | ||
(1) on a day that school is not in session; | ||
(2) before the beginning of the breakfast period; or | ||
(3) after the end of the last instruction period of the | ||
day. | ||
(c) The department may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
administer this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2012-2013 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |