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 02/21/25 - Introduced

 SB-764 Chain restaurants: children’s meals.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/05/2025 09:00 PM

SB764:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 05, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 03, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 August 28, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 19, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 764

Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson
(Coauthor: Senator Rubio)

February 21, 2025

An act to amend Section 114379.10 of, and to add Sections 114379.35 and 114379.36 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to children’s health. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 764, Weber Pierson.
 Chain restaurants: children’s meals.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for, and provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of, retail food facilities, as defined, and requires local enforcement agencies to enforce these provisions. Existing law requires a restaurant that sells a children’s meal that includes a beverage to make the default beverage water, sparkling water, or flavored water, as specified, or unflavored milk or a nondairy milk alternative, as specified. A violation of the code’s provisions related to children’s meals is an infraction. 

This bill would require a chain restaurant, as defined, that sells a children’s meal to offer at least one children’s meal that meets specified minimum nutrition standards, including, among others, that the meal not contain more than 550 calories and
 that the meal include at least 2 servings of specified types and quantities of food. The bill would also require the chain restaurant to include an icon or symbol on the menu to identify the children’s meal that meets those requirements. The bill would require a chain restaurant that sells a children’s meal, on or before July 1, 2026, to include information to its employees on how to comply with those requirements.

By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 114379.10 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

114379.10.

 For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Chain restaurant” means a restaurant or similar retail food establishment that is part of a chain with 20 or more locations doing business under the same name and offering for sale substantially the same menu items, regardless of the type of ownership of the locations. 

(b) “Children’s meal” means a combination of food items and a beverage, or a single food item and a beverage, sold together at a single price, primarily intended for consumption by a child.

(c) “Default beverage” means the beverage automatically included or offered as part of a children’s meal, absent a
 specific request by the purchaser of the children’s meal for an alternative beverage.

(d) “Restaurant” means a retail food establishment that prepares, serves, and vends food directly to the consumer.

SEC. 2.

 Section 114379.35 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

114379.35.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the nutrition standards in this section are informed by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the National Restaurant Association’s 2021 Kids LiveWell 2.0 nutrition standards for children’s meals.

(b) A chain restaurant that sells a children’s meal shall offer at least one children’s meal that meets the following minimum nutrition standards:

(1) A children’s meal required to be offered by this section shall not contain more than any of the following:

(A) Five hundred fifty calories.

(B) Seven hundred
 milligrams of sodium.

(C) Ten percent of calories from saturated fat. 

(D) Fifteen grams of added sugar. 

(E) Zero g