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House committee adopts H-3 substitute for bill shifting school food-ingredient vetting to distributors, delays start to 2028
Summary
The House Education and Workforce Committee approved an H-3 substitute to House Bill 4369 that would move ingredient-vetting responsibility from schools to food distributors and food establishments, set an effective date of July 1, 2028, and remove titanium dioxide after expert input.
The House Education and Workforce Committee on an unspecified date adopted an H-3 substitute to House Bill 4369 and voted to report the bill with recommendation. Representative Paquette, the bill sponsor, said the substitute shifts responsibility for vetting ingredients “beyond distributors, food establishment distributors that are providing food to school” so that schools will no longer be solely responsible for ingredient vetting. He also said the substitute pushes the bill’s start date to July 1, 2028, to give affected parties time to prepare, and…
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