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Measure SB 764
Authors Weber Pierson  
Coauthors: Rubio  
Subject Chain restaurants: children’s meals.
Relating To relating to children’s health.
Title An act to amend Section 114379.10 of, and to add Sections 114379.35 and 114379.36 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to children’s health.
Last Action Dt 2025-09-05
State Enrolled
Status In Floor Process
Active? Y
Vote Required Majority
Appropriation No
Fiscal Committee Yes
Local Program Yes
Substantive Changes None
Urgency No
Tax Levy No
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Actions
2025-10-13     In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
2025-10-13     Vetoed by the Governor.
2025-09-09     Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-03     Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2425.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-08-28     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2777.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-08-28     In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-08-21     Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
2025-08-20     From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
2025-07-09     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-09     Coauthors revised.
2025-06-19     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-06-05     Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-05-29     In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-05-29     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1329.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-05-27     Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-05-23     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1212.) (May 23).
2025-05-16     Set for hearing May 23.
2025-04-28     April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-17     Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-10     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 738.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-26     Set for hearing April 9.
2025-03-12     Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-02-24     Read first time.
2025-02-24     From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-21     Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Enrolled     2025-09-05
Amended Assembly     2025-06-19
Introduced     2025-02-21
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			<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
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				Section 114379.10 of the 
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								“Chain restaurant” means a restaurant or similar retail food establishment that is 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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								“Children’s meal” means a combination of food items and a beverage, or a single food item and a beverage, sold together at a single price, primarily intended for consumption by a child.
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								“Default beverage” means the beverage automatically included or offered as part of a children’s meal, absent a
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								“Restaurant” means a retail food establishment that prepares, serves, and vends food directly to the consumer.
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								The Legislature finds and declares that the nutrition standards in this section are informed by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the National Restaurant Association’s 2021 Kids LiveWell 2.0 nutrition standards for children’s meals.
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								A chain restaurant that sells a children’s meal shall offer at least one children’s meal that meets the following minimum nutrition standards:
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								A children’s meal required to be offered by this section shall not contain more than any of the following:
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								Five hundred fifty calories.
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								Ten percent of calories from saturated fat. 
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								Fifteen grams of added sugar. 
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								A children’s meal required to be offered by this section shall include at least two of the following servings:
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								A serving of one-half of a cup or more of fruit. For the purposes of this subparagraph, 100 percent fruit juice shall be considered a serving of fruit.
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								A serving of one-half of a cup or more of vegetables.
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								A serving of one-half of a cup or more nonfat or low-fat dairy.
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								A serving of meat or a meat alternative equal to at least one of the following:
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								One ounce of meat, poultry, or seafood.
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								A serving of eight of more grams of whole grains that meets at least one of the following conditions:
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								The serving
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								(ii)
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								The first ingredient in the serving’s ingredient list, in descending order of predominance, is whole grains. 
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								A chain restaurant that sells children’s meals shall include an icon or symbol on the menu to identify the children’s meal that meets the requirements of this section. The icon or symbol and accompanying text shall be displayed prominently, clearly, and conspicuously next to or directly under the name of the healthy children’s meal, and at a height no smaller than the largest letter in the name of the item.
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							<html:p>On or before July 1, 2026, a chain restaurant that sells a children’s meal shall include information on how to comply with the requirements of Section 114379.35 during an employee’s ongoing training program and a new employee’s training process.</html:p>
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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 because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because 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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Last Version Text Digest 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, as defined, and requires local enforcement agencies to enforce these provisions. Existing law requires a restaurant that sells a children’s meal that includes a beverage to make the default beverage water, sparkling water, or flavored water, as specified, or unflavored milk or a nondairy milk alternative, as specified. A violation of the code’s provisions related to children’s meals is an infraction. This bill would require a chain restaurant, as defined, that sells a children’s meal to offer at least one children’s meal that meets specified minimum nutrition standards, including, among others, that the meal not contain more than 550 calories and that the meal include at least 2 servings of specified types and quantities of food. The bill would also require the chain restaurant to include an icon or symbol on the menu to identify the children’s meal that meets those requirements. The bill would require a chain restaurant that sells a children’s meal, on or before July 1, 2026, to include information to its employees on how to comply with those requirements.