2025 bills / H.B. 402
H.B. 402 Foods Additives in Schools (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill would bar public schools from providing food or drink items that contain certain food additives, under specified conditions. It also defines key terms and sets out some exceptions to the ban.
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Official description
- defines terms
- enacts provisions to prohibit consumable items containing certain food additives from being provided in a public school under certain circumstances
- provides exceptions
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 402 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 402 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 7 yes, 2 no, 7 absentHouse Education Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 3 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 38 yes, 34 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 16 yes, 6 no, 7 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how