Senate Bill 232 Summary

• School districts and public school academies must adopt and implement a local school nutrition policy by April 1, 2009, governing food and beverages sold outside federally regulated child nutrition programs.

• Elementary and middle schools must prohibit sale or distribution of foods of minimal nutritional value, items with more than 30% calories from fat or 10% from saturated fat, products with 40%+ sugar by volume, and juice drinks with less than 50% fruit or vegetable juice.

• High schools must prohibit the same restricted items during school hours only, with exceptions for employee areas inaccessible to students and school athletic director-approved sports drinks at athletic events.

• School districts must establish coordinated school health teams to approve all food and beverage sales (except federally regulated programs) and submit compliance resolutions to the state board every two years.

• The superintendent of public instruction may impose administrative fines up to $100 per violation on school administrators responsible for repeated policy violations, with fines deposited into the state school aid fund.