TO: | Honorable Dan Patrick, Chair, Senate Committee on Education |
FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB217 by Alvarado (Relating to the types of beverages that may be sold to students on public school campuses.), As Engrossed |
The bill would prohibit school districts from selling, in elementary, middle, or junior high schools, beverages with added sweeteners, milk with more than one percent fat, or juices less than 100 percent juice. The limitation would not apply on days that school was not in session; before the beginning of breakfast; after the end of the last instruction period of the school day; or to the sale to a high school student on a school campus collocated with an elementary, middle, or junior high school.
The bill has no direct fiscal implications for the Foundation School Program (FSP) or the operations of the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) anticipates incurring minimal costs related to rulemaking and to distributing updated Texas Public School Nutrition Policy materials to schools. This estimate assumes the agency would be able to implement the provisions of the bill within existing resources.
Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency, 551 Department of Agriculture
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LBB Staff: | UP, CL, JP, JBi, JSc
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