By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 3420
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the use and distribution of dietary supplements in
 1-3     public schools.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 38, Education Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Section 38.011 to read as follows:
 1-7           Section 38.011  DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS.
 1-8           Sec. 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this section, "dietary supplement"
 1-9     has the meaning assigned by the Food and Drug Administration, 21
1-10     U.S.C. Section 321 (ff).
1-11           Sec. 2.  PROHIBITED ACTS.  (a)  A school district employee
1-12     may not sell, market, or distribute any dietary supplement to a
1-13     student.
1-14           (b)  A school district employee may not endorse or suggest
1-15     the ingestion of any dietary supplement that has not been evaluated
1-16     and approved for safety by the United States Food and Drug
1-17     Administration.
1-18           SECTION 3.   This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.