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House Bill 217 |
House Author: Alvarado et al. |
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Effective: Vetoed |
Senate Sponsor: Uresti et al. |
House Bill 217 amends the Agriculture Code to prohibit a public elementary, middle, or junior high school from selling or allowing to be sold to a student on the school campus any type of beverage other than water without added sweetener, milk with a fat content of one percent or less, certain fluid milk substitutions, or 100 percent vegetable or fruit juice, except on a day that school is not in session or during certain times of the school day.
Reason Given for Veto: "I support reasonable measures to sustainably improve the health and wellness of Texas students through nutrition. To that end, current Texas Public School Nutrition Policy already responsibly limits unnecessary, unhealthy access to high-sugar, high‑calorie beverages. House Bill 217 takes this effort to an unreasonable and unnecessary extreme, and would limit access to such innocuous beverages as two percent milk."