Bill Text: TX HB217 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the types of beverages that may be sold to students on public school campuses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2013-06-14 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB217 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB217-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 217 |
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relating to the types of beverages that may be sold to students on | ||
public school campuses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 12.0021 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.0021. BEVERAGES ALLOWED TO BE SOLD TO STUDENTS ON | ||
PUBLIC SCHOOL CAMPUSES. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), | ||
a public elementary, middle, or junior high school may not sell or | ||
allow to be sold to a 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 percent or less; | ||
(3) fluid milk substitutions permitted by the United | ||
States Department of Agriculture under 7 C.F.R. Section 210.10; | ||
(4) 100 percent vegetable juice; or | ||
(5) 100 percent fruit juice. | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply: | ||
(1) on a day that school is not in session; | ||
(2) before the beginning of the breakfast period; | ||
(3) after the end of the last instruction period of the | ||
day; or | ||
(4) to the sale of a beverage to a high school student | ||
on a school campus on which a high school is colocated with an | ||
elementary, middle, or junior high school. | ||
(c) The department may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
administer this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a contract entered into | ||
or renewed between a school district and a vendor on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A contract entered into or renewed | ||
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 217 was passed by the House on May 10, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 95, Nays 44, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 217 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 19, Nays 11. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |