Bill Text: TX HB5548 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included at primary and secondary schools.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-07 - Referred to Public Education [HB5548 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB5548-Introduced.html
| By: Wilson | H.B. No. 5548 | |
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| relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included | ||
| at primary and secondary schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.9011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.9011. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN ADDITIVES IN SCHOOL | ||
| MEALS. A school district or open-enrollment charter school that | ||
| provides meals to students may not provide any food that contains | ||
| the following substances: | ||
| (1) brominated vegetable oil (BVO); | ||
| (2) potassium bromate; | ||
| (3) propylparaben; | ||
| (4) azodicarbonamide; | ||
| (5) butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA); | ||
| (6) titanium dioxide; | ||
| (7) red dye 3 (CAS 16423-68-0); | ||
| (8) blue 1 (CAS 3844-45-9); | ||
| (9) blue 2 (CAS 860-22-0); | ||
| (10) green 3 (CAS 2353-45-9); | ||
| (11) red 40 (CAS 25956-17-6); | ||
| (12) yellow 5 (CAS 1934-21-0); | ||
| (13) yellow 6 (CAS 2783-94-0); or | ||
| (14) any additive that is substantially similar to an | ||
| additive specified in Subdivisions (7) through (13). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2026-2027 | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
