Bill Text: TX HB2094 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to warning signs posted by certain food service establishments that prepare food items containing peanut products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-24 - Filed [HB2094 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2094-Introduced.html
89R4333 EAS-D | ||
By: Martinez | H.B. No. 2094 |
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relating to warning signs posted by certain food service | ||
establishments that prepare food items containing peanut products. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 438, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subchapter E to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER E. PEANUT ALLERGEN WARNING SIGNS | ||
Sec. 438.051. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only | ||
to a food service establishment: | ||
(1) with a designed or designated space for eating; | ||
and | ||
(2) that prepares a food item containing peanuts or a | ||
peanut product. | ||
Sec. 438.052. WARNING SIGNS REQUIRED FOR FOOD ITEMS | ||
CONTAINING PEANUT PRODUCTS. A food service establishment to which | ||
this subchapter applies shall post in a conspicuous place in the | ||
area of the establishment in which food is consumed or on the | ||
establishment's food menu a warning sign that states: | ||
"This establishment prepares food items that contain peanut | ||
products." | ||
Sec. 438.053. RULES. The executive commissioner shall | ||
adopt any rules necessary to implement this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2026. |