Senate Bill 25
Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty.
Bill facts
Bill facts
- Author
- Kolkhorst.
- Companion
- HB 25 by Hull, Identical.
- Last action
- June 22, 2025. Effective on 9/1/25.
- Version analyzed
- Enrolled, posted May 29, 2025.
- Subjects
- Education, Governor, Health Care Providers, Health, Occupational Regulation, State Agencies, Boards & Commissions.
Bottom line
Bottom line
This version of SB25 creates the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee to set state nutritional guidelines, requires warning labels on foods containing any of 44 listed ingredients (enforced by the attorney general with civil penalties up to $50,000 per day per product), and ties school and college curricula, health-related institutions' Chapter 63 funding and health professionals' continuing education to those guidelines. The ratings point both ways. Negative: -1 Moderate on Liability exposure, Judicial predictability, Occupational licensing barriers, K-12 education quality and family choice, Workforce training and credentialing, and both fiscal dimensions. Positive: +1 Small on Public records access and ethics enforcement and on Sunset review and program evaluation.