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Creates the Food Reform to Ensure Student Health Act. Requires each school district in the State to begin to eliminate ultraprocessed foods of concern and restricted school foods by July 1, 2029. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2032, a vendor may not offer to a school either an ultraprocessed food of concern or a restricted school food. Requires food vendors to report to the Department of Public Health certain information about ultraprocessed foods of concern and restricted school foods that they have sold to schools. Requires the Department, in consultation with the State Board of Education, to submit to the General Assembly and Governor annual summary reports of the data submitted to it by food vendors. Directs the Department to post these reports on its website. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt rules establishing definitions of the terms "ultraprocessed foods of concern" and "restricted school foods" for purposes of these requirements. Requires the Department to review those rules and, if needed, update them every 5 years. Requires the Department to consult with the State Board of Education and to provide compliance training for school food service and procurement staff. Describes the topics to be covered by the Department in the training. Provides for the repeal of the Act on January 1, 2034. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.

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Sonya Harper (D)*,  Carol Ammons (D),  Diane Blair-Sherlock (D),  Mary Beth Canty (D),  Kelly Cassidy (D),  Michael Crawford (D),  William Davis (D),  Kimberly du Buclet (D),  Marcus Evans (D),  Laura Faver Dias (D),  Edgar González (D),  Barbara Hernandez (D),  Norma Hernandez (D),  Lilian Jiménez (D),  Tracy Katz Muhl (D),  Joyce Mason (D),  Yolonda Morris (D),  Kevin Olickal (D),  Abdelnasser Rashid (D),  Bob Rita (D),  Kevin Schmidt (R),  Justin Slaughter (D),  Nick Smith (D),  Anne Stava-Murray (D),  Nabeela Syed (D),  Janet Yang Rohr (D), 

House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee (on 04/17/2026)

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