Bill Text: TX HB3736 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain additives from being included in food and drinks provided by school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-04 - Filed [HB3736 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3736-Introduced.html
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| By: Shofner | H.B. No. 3736 | |
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| relating to prohibiting certain additives from being included in | ||
| food and drinks 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 FOOD AND | ||
| DRINKS PROVIDED BY SCHOOLS. A school district or open-enrollment | ||
| charter school that provides meals to students may not provide any | ||
| food or drink that contains the following substances: | ||
| (1) red 3 (CAS 16423-68-0); | ||
| (2) red 40 (CAS 25956-17-6); | ||
| (3) yellow 5 (CAS 1934-21-0); | ||
| (4) yellow 6 (CAS 2783-94-0); | ||
| (5) blue 1 (CAS 3844-45-9); | ||
| (6) blue 2 (CAS 860-22-0); | ||
| (7) green 3 (CAS 2353-45-9); | ||
| (8) caramel (CAS 8028-89-5); or | ||
| (9) any additive that is substantially similar to an | ||
| additive specified in Subdivisions (1) through (8). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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. | ||
