Bill Text: TX HB3680 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the types of food or beverages that may be sold to students on public school campuses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB3680 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3680-Introduced.html
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By: Martinez Fischer | H.B. No. 3680 |
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relating to the types of food or 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. FOOD OR 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: | ||
(1) any food determined under department guidelines to | ||
be a food of minimal nutritional value; or | ||
(2) any type of beverage other than the following: | ||
(A) water without added sweetener; | ||
(B) milk with a fat content of two percent or | ||
less; | ||
(C) soy milk, rice milk, or similar nondairy | ||
milk; | ||
(D) vegetable juice that: | ||
(i) contains at least 50 percent vegetable | ||
juice; and | ||
(ii) does not contain added sweetener; or | ||
(E) fruit juice that: | ||
(i) contains at least 50 percent fruit | ||
juice; and | ||
(ii) does not contain added sweetener. | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply: | ||
(1) on a day that school is not in session; or | ||
(2) beginning at least one-half hour after the end of a | ||
school day. | ||
(c) The department may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
administer this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |