Bills

AB 2316: Pupil nutrition: substances: prohibition.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Assembly

Current Status:

Passed

(2024-09-28: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 914, Statutes of 2024.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain nutrition guidelines for school lunches and breakfasts, and for all food and beverages sold on public school campuses. Existing law requires those nutrition guidelines to be consistent with the requirements for a nutritionally adequate breakfast and a nutritionally adequate lunch. Existing law defines a nutritionally adequate breakfast and a nutritionally adequate lunch for these purposes to mean those that qualify for reimbursement under the most current meal pattern for the federal School Breakfast Program and the federal National School Lunch Program, respectively.

Existing law requires a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to make available a nutritionally adequate breakfast and a nutritionally adequate lunch, free of charge, during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupils eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal. Existing law authorizes a school operated and maintained by a school district or county office of education, from the midnight before to 30 minutes after the end of the official schoolday, to sell food and beverages other than meals reimbursed by specified federal nutrition programs, only if the food or beverages meet dietary guidelines, as specified, depending on grade level.

This bill, beginning December 31, 2027, would prohibit a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, from offering a nutritionally adequate breakfast or lunch containing specified substances, including, among others, red 40 and yellow 5 and would prohibit a school operated and maintained by a school district or county office of education from selling food or beverages, except for food items sold as part of a school fundraising event, containing those specified substances, as provided. To the extent this bill would impose additional requirements on public schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Discussed in Hearing

Assembly Floor1MIN
Aug 29, 2024

Assembly Floor

Senate Floor4MIN
Aug 28, 2024

Senate Floor

Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations1MIN
Aug 5, 2024

Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations

Senate Standing Committee on Health26MIN
Jul 3, 2024

Senate Standing Committee on Health

Senate Standing Committee on Education42MIN
Jun 26, 2024

Senate Standing Committee on Education

Assembly Floor4MIN
May 21, 2024

Assembly Floor

Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials31MIN
Apr 23, 2024

Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials

Assembly Standing Committee on Education21MIN
Apr 3, 2024

Assembly Standing Committee on Education

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