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Committee approves bill requiring restaurants to disclose imported shrimp on menus
Summary
A bill requiring restaurants to prominently indicate imported shrimp on menus was advanced by the Senate Rules Committee; the sponsor and committee clarified the proposal does not prohibit sales and exempts state-operated institutions.
The Senate Rules Committee advanced House Bill 117, a bill that would require restaurants to prominently disclose on menus when shrimp being sold are imported from foreign sources.
Representative Petrie, the bill’s sponsor, described the measure as a consumer-transparency effort. "This bill simply requires that menus in restaurants prominently display if they are eating…
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