Bill Text: TX SB314 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included in free or reduced-price meals provided by school districts.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-27 - Effective immediately [SB314 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB314-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 314 | ||
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| relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included | ||
| in free or reduced-price meals provided by school districts. | ||
| 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 FREE OR | ||
| REDUCED-PRICE MEALS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "National school breakfast program" means the | ||
| national school breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of | ||
| 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773). | ||
| (2) "National school lunch program" means the national | ||
| school lunch program of free or reduced-price lunches under 42 | ||
| U.S.C. Section 1751 et seq. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| that provides free or reduced-price meals to eligible students | ||
| under Section 33.901, the national school breakfast program, or the | ||
| national school lunch program may not provide as part of a free or | ||
| reduced-price meal any food that contains the following substances: | ||
| (1) brominated vegetable oil (BVO); | ||
| (2) potassium bromate; | ||
| (3) propylparaben; | ||
| (4) azodicarbonamide; | ||
| (5) butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA); | ||
| (6) red 3 (CAS 16423-68-0); | ||
| (7) red 40 (CAS 25956-17-6); | ||
| (8) yellow 5 (CAS 1934-21-0); | ||
| (9) yellow 6 (CAS 2783-94-0); | ||
| (10) blue 1 (CAS 3844-45-9); | ||
| (11) blue 2 (CAS 860-22-0); | ||
| (12) green 3 (CAS 2353-45-9); | ||
| (13) citrus red 3 (CAS 6358-53-8); | ||
| (14) orange B (CAS 15139-76-1); | ||
| (15) INS No. 150c/ammonia caramel (Class III); | ||
| (16) INS No. 150d/sulfite ammonia caramel (Class IV); | ||
| (17) titanium dioxide; or | ||
| (18) any additive that is substantially similar to an | ||
| additive specified in Subdivisions (1) through (17). | ||
| (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| that receives a waiver under Section 7.056 is not in violation of | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this | ||
| section, this Act applies beginning with the 2026-2027 school year. | ||
| (b) This Act applies only to a contract to provide food for | ||
| free or reduced-price meals, as described by Section 33.9011, | ||
| Education Code, as added by this Act, entered into or renewed on or | ||
| after September 1, 2026. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 314 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 12, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 14, 2025, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 314 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 123, | ||
| Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
