BILL NUMBER: SB 74 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY Senators Torlakson, Escutia, and Ortiz
(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Frommer, Jackson, and Leno)

(Coauthor: Senator Karnette)

JANUARY 22, 2003

An act to add Section 11005.4 to the Government Code, relating to
state property.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 74, as introduced, Torlakson. State property: vending
machines.
Existing law regulates various aspects of the provision of food
and beverages in vending machines, including access to carbonated
beverages at schools, the giving of priority to blind persons with
respect to the operation of vending facilities on state property, the
sanitation of vending machines and requiring public health permits,
and the placement of vending machines in safety roadside rests on the
state highway system.
This bill would require each vendor that operates or maintains a
vending machine on designated state property to satisfy the
requirement that at least 50% of the food and beverages offered at
the vending machine meets accepted nutritional guidelines, as
defined.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


SECTION 1. Section 11005.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
11005.4. (a) Each vendor that operates or maintains a vending
machine on state property shall satisfy the requirement that at least
50 percent of the food and beverages offered at the vending machine
on state property meets accepted nutritional guidelines.
(b) "Accepted nutritional guidelines" as used in this section
means ______.
(c) "State property" as used in this section means all real
property, or part thereof, used for state purposes and either owned,
leased, rented, or otherwise controlled by, and occupied by, any
state agency, including the California State University.
(d) "Vending machine" means any mechanical device the operation of
which depends upon the insertion of a coin or other thing
representative of value and that dispenses or vends a food product or
beverage.

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