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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title>An act to add Article 8.7 (commencing with Section 114094.15) to Chapter 4 of Part 7 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to restaurant menus.</ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Restaurant menus: added sugar warnings. </ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for, and provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of, retail food facilities, and requires local health agencies to enforce those provisions. Existing law makes a person who violates a provision of the code guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law requires certain food facilities to provide written notification of the major food allergens that the food facility knows or reasonably should know are contained as an ingredient in each menu item, either directly on its menu or in a digital format, as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill, on or before January 1, 2028, would require a chain restaurant offering a standard menu beverage item with high added sugar
content, as defined, to display on its menus an added sugar icon immediately adjacent to each standard menu beverage item with high added sugar content, as specified. The bill would require those chain restaurants to display at the point of selection a specified factual warning statement explaining the added sugar icon. By expanding the scope of an existing crime and by imposing new duties on local health officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
<html:p>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.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
<html:p>With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if
the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.</html:p>
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Article 8.7 (commencing with Section 114094.15) is added to Chapter 4 of Part 7 of Division 104 of the
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<ns0:Num>8.7.</ns0:Num>
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<ns0:LawHeadingText>Added Sugar Safety Warnings</ns0:LawHeadingText>
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<html:p>For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:</html:p>
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(a)
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“Chain restaurant” means a food facility that is both of the following:
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(1)
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Restaurant or similar retail food establishment. This paragraph includes a cafe or deli that serves food for immediate consumption and that is located within another retail establishment, regardless of whether the retail establishment owns the cafe or deli.
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(2)
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Part of a chain with 20 or more locations doing business under the same name and offering for sale substantially the same menu items, regardless of the type of ownership of the locations.
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(b)
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“High added sugar content” means 50 percent or more per serving of the daily reference value for added sugar used by the United States Food and Drug Administration on January 1, 2026, to calculate the percent daily value for nutrition labeling of food.
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(c)
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“Menu” means the primary writing of a chain restaurant from which a customer makes an order selection, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
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(1)
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Breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus.
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(2)
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Dessert menus.
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(3)
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Beverage menus.
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(4)
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Child menus.
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(5)
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Other specialty menus.
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(6)
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Drive-through menus.
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(7)
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Electronic menus.
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(8)
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Menu boards.
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(9)
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Menus on the internet. Menus on the internet include, but are not limited to, menus on chain restaurant internet websites and applications, and on third-party platforms where chain restaurants post and control their own menus.
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“Point of selection” means a place where a customer may view menu options and make their selection when purchasing food from a chain restaurant.
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(e)
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(1)
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“Standard menu beverage item” means a beverage item that is prepared or poured at, and listed on a menu of, a chain restaurant, including a fountain drink or a
variable beverage item that comes in different flavors, varieties, or combinations and is listed as a single item.
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(2)
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“Standard menu beverage item” does not include any of the following:
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(A)
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Prepackaged beverage items with added sugar content labeling that are served directly to customers.
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(B)
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Beverage items appearing on a menu for less than 30 days per calendar year.
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(C)
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Beverage items without high added sugar content that are then modified or customized by the customer either while ordering or while at a beverage dispenser.
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(D)
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Beverage items that contain alcohol.
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(f)
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“Third-party platform” means an internet website,
application, or other online platform from which consumers can access a chain restaurant’s menu.
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<html:p>On or before January 1, 2028, a chain restaurant offering a standard menu beverage item with high added sugar content shall display both of the following: </html:p>
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(a)
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An added sugar icon prominently, clearly, and in a conspicuous manner on its menus, immediately adjacent to each standard menu beverage item with high added sugar content, indicating that the added sugar content of this item exceeds one-half the total daily recommended limit.
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(b)
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The following factual warning statement prominently, clearly, and conspicuously at the point of selection: “(Insert icon and accompanying text here) indicates that the added sugar content of this item exceeds one-half the total daily recommended
limit.”
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No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution for certain costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district because, in that regard, this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution.
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<html:p>However, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains other costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.</html:p>
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