Bill Text: TX HB127 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed

Texas House Bill 127 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the types of beverages that may be sold to students on public school campuses.

Sponsorship: 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.


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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.