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          Date of Hearing:   August 17, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                   SB 20 (Padilla) - As Amended:  August 15, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              HealthVote:13 - 0 


          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          Yes    Reimbursable:              Yes

           SUMMARY  

          This bill conforms California's current restaurant menu labeling 
          laws to federal law. Specifically, this bill: 

          1)Requires every food facility subject to federal law or subject 
            to state law as it read on July 1, 2011, to comply with the 
            requirements of federal law and all subsequent regulations.

          2)Makes a violation of this bill an infraction punishable by a 
            fine in an amount that varies based on the nature of the 
            violation.

          3)Prohibits a food facility from being found to have committed a 
            violation under this bill more than once during an inspection 
            visit.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation. 


           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . Subsequent to the passage of California's menu 
            labeling law, federal health care reform legislation requires 
            restaurants with 20 or more locations to disclose certain 
            nutritional information on their menus.  This legislation 
            conforms the state's existing law to the new federal law. 

           2)Background  . The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
            (PPACA) (Public Law 111-148), among other things, requires 








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            restaurants or similar retail establishments with 20 or more 
            locations, doing business under the same name and offering for 
            sale substantially the same menu items, to disclose certain 
            nutritional information for standard menu items.  The law also 
            requires operators of 20 or more vending machines to provide 
            signs disclosing the number of calories for food items in the 
            machines when the Nutrition Facts Panel cannot be viewed by 
            the purchaser.

           3)Related Legislation  . SB 1420 (Padilla) Statutes of 2008, 
            required restaurant chains with at least 19 branches 
            (including franchises) to make specific nutrition information 
            available for all standard menu items.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916) 
          319-2081