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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 240

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Relating to: requiring food allergy posters to be displayed in certain retail food establishments. (FE)

Employment Food Restaurant Retail establishment

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires restaurants and certain other retail food establishments to

display, in a place frequented by employees, an educational poster relating to food

allergies. The poster must be in a language the employees understand and must

identify or describe: the eight most common food allergens; sources of cross

contamination; what to do if a customer notifies an employee that someone in their

party has a food allergy; and what to do if a person is having an allergic reaction.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Kulp (R) , Neylon (R) , Skowronski (R) , Snyder (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R)

2 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Petrowski (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Consumer Protection, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Feb 13, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. May 24, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snyder, Subeck, Considine, Emerson, Kulp, Neylon, Skowronski, Spreitzer, C. Taylor, Thiesfeldt and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski and Carpenter

  2. May 24, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Consumer Protection

  3. Jul 3, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 16, 2020 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 5, 2020 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 13, 2020 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Consumer Protection, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  7. Feb 13, 2020 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1