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Committee approves H-3 substitute for bill shifting school food ingredient vetting to distributors
Summary
The House Education and Workforce Committee approved an H-3 substitute for House Bill 4369 that pushes ingredient-vetting responsibility from schools to food distributors, delays implementation to July 1, 2028, and removes titanium dioxide after sponsor cited expert input.
The House Education and Workforce Committee approved an H-3 substitute for House Bill 4369 on a unanimous roll call, moving the measure forward after the bill sponsor described three substantive changes.
Representative Paquette, the bill sponsor, told the committee the substitute shifts the responsibility for vetting ingredients away from schools and onto food establishment distributors that supply school food, changes the bill’s start date to July 1, 2028, and removes titanium dioxide from the…
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