Connecticut 2013 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00263 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/18/2013

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 263
January Session, 2013  LCO No. 1431
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
SEN. FRANTZ, 36th Dist. (By Request)

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 263 

January Session, 2013

LCO No. 1431

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH 

Introduced by:

SEN. FRANTZ, 36th Dist.

(By Request)

AN ACT CONCERNING FOOD ALLERGY INFORMATION AND RESTAURANTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That chapter 368a of the general statutes be amended to require (1) restaurants to post notices containing information about food allergies in the restaurant's kitchen, (2) restaurants to print notices in menus asking customers to inform their server of any food allergies, and (3) the Department of Public Health to develop a program to designate certain restaurants as "food allergy safe" and to provide a list of such restaurants on the department's web site.

Statement of Purpose: 

To make restaurants more food-allergy aware and safe.