Bill Text: HI HB1781 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 1781 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Keiki Caucus Package; Preschool Students; Beverages

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Referred to HLT, EDN, FIN, referral sheet 2 [HB1781 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-HB1781-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1781
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to beverages.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§302A-A Beverages allowed to be sold to preschool students. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), no public school may sell or allow to be sold to any preschool student on the school campus any type of beverage other than the following:

(1) Water without added sweetener;

(2) Milk with a fat content of one per cent or less;

(3) Fluid milk substitutions permitted by the United States Department of Agriculture under title 7 Code of Federal Regulations section 210.10;

(4) One hundred per cent vegetable juice;

(5) One hundred per cent fruit juice;

(6) Zero-calorie electrolyte replacement or zero-calorie vitamin enhanced water beverages; or

(7) An electrolyte replacement beverage other than one described by paragraph (6), but only if the electrolyte replacement beverage is provided at the discretion of a coach to students engaged in vigorous physical activity lasting at least one hour.

(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply:

(1) On a day that school is not in session;

(2) Before the beginning of the breakfast period; or

(3) After the end of the last instruction period of the day.

SECTION 2. Chapter 302C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§302C-A Beverages allowed to be sold to preschool students. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), no private school that receives funds from the State may sell or allow to be sold to any preschool student on the school campus any type of beverage other than the following:

(1) Water without added sweetener;

(2) Milk with a fat content of one per cent or less;

(3) Fluid milk substitutions permitted by the United States Department of Agriculture under title 7 Code of Federal Regulations section 210.10;

(4) One hundred per cent vegetable juice;

(5) One hundred per cent fruit juice;

(6) Zero-calorie electrolyte replacement or zero-calorie vitamin enhanced water beverages; or

(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply:

(1) On a day that school is not in session;

(2) Before the beginning of the breakfast period; or

(3) After the end of the last instruction period of the day.

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Keiki Caucus Package; Preschool Students; Beverages

Description:

Restricts the types of beverages that public schools and private schools with state funding may sell to preschool students.

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