| 1 | | - | By: Hughes, et al. S.B. No. 314 |
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| 1 | + | By: Hughes, Cook, Hall S.B. No. 314 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025, |
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| 3 | + | read first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16; |
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| 4 | + | February 19, 2025 rereferred to Committee on Health & Human |
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| 5 | + | Services; March 10, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable |
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| 6 | + | Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; |
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| 7 | + | March 10, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 8 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 9 | + | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 314 By: Perry |
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| 6 | 12 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 13 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 14 | | relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included |
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| 9 | 15 | | in free or reduced-price meals provided by school districts. |
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| 10 | 16 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 17 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is |
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| 12 | 18 | | amended by adding Section 33.9011 to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 19 | | Sec. 33.9011. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN ADDITIVES IN FREE OR |
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| 14 | 20 | | REDUCED-PRICE MEALS. (a) In this section: |
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| 15 | 21 | | (1) "National school breakfast program" means the |
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| 16 | 22 | | national school breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of |
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| 17 | 23 | | 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773). |
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| 18 | 24 | | (2) "National school lunch program" means the national |
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| 19 | 25 | | school lunch program of free or reduced-price lunches under 42 |
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| 20 | 26 | | U.S.C. Section 1751 et seq. |
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| 21 | 27 | | (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school |
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| 22 | 28 | | that provides free or reduced-price meals to eligible students |
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| 23 | 29 | | under Section 33.901, the national school breakfast program, or the |
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| 24 | 30 | | national school lunch program may not provide as part of a free or |
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| 25 | 31 | | reduced-price meal any food that contains the following substances: |
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| 26 | 32 | | (1) brominated vegetable oil (BVO); |
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| 27 | 33 | | (2) potassium bromate; |
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| 28 | 34 | | (3) propylparaben; |
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| 29 | 35 | | (4) azodicarbonamide; |
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| 30 | 36 | | (5) butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA); |
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| 31 | 37 | | (6) red 3 (CAS 16423-68-0); |
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| 32 | 38 | | (7) red 40 (CAS 25956-17-6); |
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| 33 | 39 | | (8) yellow 5 (CAS 1934-21-0); |
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| 34 | 40 | | (9) yellow 6 (CAS 2783-94-0); |
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| 35 | 41 | | (10) blue 1 (CAS 3844-45-9); |
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| 36 | 42 | | (11) blue 2 (CAS 860-22-0); |
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| 37 | 43 | | (12) green 3 (CAS 2353-45-9); |
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| 38 | 44 | | (13) caramel (CAS 8028-89-5); |
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| 39 | 45 | | (14) titanium dioxide; or |
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| 40 | 46 | | (15) any additive that is substantially similar to an |
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| 41 | 47 | | additive specified in Subdivisions (1) through (14). |
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| 45 | 48 | | SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this |
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| 46 | 49 | | section, this Act applies beginning with the 2026-2027 school year. |
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| 47 | 50 | | (b) This Act applies only to a contract to provide food for |
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| 48 | 51 | | free or reduced-price meals, as described by Section 33.9011, |
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| 49 | 52 | | Education Code, as added by this Act, entered into or renewed on or |
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| 50 | 53 | | after September 1, 2026. |
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| 51 | 54 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 52 | 55 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 53 | 56 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 54 | 57 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 55 | 58 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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