Senate File 46SENATE FILE BY McCOY Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to school nutritional standards by requiring a 2 ban on certain sales of unhealthy individual food items and 3 requiring the director of the department of education to adopt 4 guidelines for minimum nutritional standards. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 6 TLSB 1692SS 82 7 kh/es/88 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 256.9, subsection 39, Code 2007, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 39. Provide educational resources and technical assistance 1 4 to schools relating to the implementation of the nutritional 1 5 guidelines for food and beverages sold on public school 1 6 grounds or on the grounds of nonpublic schools receiving funds 1 7 under section 283A.10. The director shall also prepare and 1 8 implement guidelines for minimum nutritional standards to 1 9 assist school districts, at a minimum, in meeting the 1 10 unhealthy individual food item prohibition in section 279.9C. 1 11 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 279.9C UNHEALTHY FOOD BAN. 1 12 The rules adopted under section 279.8 shall prohibit the 1 13 sale of unhealthy individual food items at middle and high 1 14 school attendance centers during the school day pursuant to 1 15 the guidelines for minimum nutritional standards established 1 16 by the department of education pursuant to section 256.9, 1 17 subsection 39. 1 18 EXPLANATION 1 19 This bill directs the boards of directors of school 1 20 districts to adopt rules that ban the sale of unhealthy 1 21 individual food items at middle and high school attendance 1 22 centers during the school day and requires the director of the 1 23 department of education to assist school districts in this 1 24 effort by implementing guidelines for minimum nutritional 1 25 standards. 1 26 LSB 1692SS 82 1 27 kh:nh/es/88