Bill Text: TX SB314 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included in free or reduced-price meals provided by school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB314 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB314-Introduced.html
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| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 314 | |
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| relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included | ||
| in free or reduced-price meals 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 FREE OR | ||
| REDUCED-PRICE MEALS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "National school breakfast program" means the | ||
| national school breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of | ||
| 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1773). | ||
| (2) "National school lunch program" means the national | ||
| school lunch program of free or reduced-price lunches under 42 | ||
| U.S.C. Section 1751 et seq. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| that provides free or reduced-price meals to eligible students | ||
| under Section 33.901, the national school breakfast program, or the | ||
| national school lunch program may not provide as part of a free or | ||
| reduced-price meal any food that contains the following substances: | ||
| (1) brominated vegetable oil (BVO); | ||
| (2) potassium bromate; | ||
| (3) propylparaben; | ||
| (4) azodicarbonamide; | ||
| (5) butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA); | ||
| (6) red dye 3; or | ||
| (7) titanium dioxide. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this | ||
| section, this Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. | ||
| (b) This Act applies only to a contract to provide food for | ||
| free or reduced-price meals, as described by Section 33.9011, | ||
| Education Code, as added by this Act, entered into or renewed on or | ||
| after September 1, 2025. | ||
| 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. | ||
