HB1267: requiring fast food restaurants to provide nutritional information to consumers.

HB 1267 - AS INTRODUCED

2003 SESSION

03-2126

08/09

HOUSE BILL 1267

AN ACT requiring fast food restaurants to provide nutritional information to consumers.

SPONSORS: Rep. Langley, Rock 88; Rep. Lockwood, Merr 35; Rep. Scamman, Rock 83; Rep. Cady, Rock 73; Rep. French, Merr 34; Sen. Cohen, Dist 24

COMMITTEE: Commerce

ANALYSIS

This bill requires fast food restaurants to provide nutritional information to consumers.

This bill also amends an outdated chapter heading.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-2126

08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT requiring fast food restaurants to provide nutritional information to consumers.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Change Outdated Chapter Heading. Amend the chapter heading of RSA 146 to read as follows:

PURITY AND BRANDING OF FOODS AND DRUGS[; IMMATURE VEAL]

2 New Section; Nutritional Information Required. Amend RSA 146 by inserting after section 21 the following new section:

146:22 Nutritional Information.

I. Each restaurant in this state that is part of a large chain of fast food restaurants shall provide customers with complete nutritional information, upon request, on all food items sold at the restaurant. The restaurant shall also post a sign on the premises that nutritional information concerning food items served at the restaurant is available upon request. The information provided to the customer pursuant to this section shall be in printed form, such as a flyer or pamphlet, that the customer may keep. Nutritional information provided by a restaurant to a customer shall include the same information that is required by federal law to appear in nutrition labeling pursuant to 21 U.S.C. section 343(g).

II. For the purposes of this section:

(a) "Large chain" means a chain of restaurants that includes 10 or more franchises or restaurants in this state.

(b) "Fast food restaurant" means a restaurant that sells low-cost food products often on a "take out" or "to go" basis to customers who pay in advance for their food.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2005.