What is the status of SB25?

Signed into law as of June 22, 2025. Latest action: Effective on 9/1/25 (June 22, 2025).

Lois Kolkhorst (R, SD-018), with 11 co-sponsors.

Where is the official record for SB25?

On the Texas Legislature website: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB00025

Texas legislation · 89th Legislature Regular Session

Texas SB25: 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.

Q: What is SB25?

SB25 is a bill in the Texas Legislature (89th Legislature Regular Session): 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.

Q: What does SB25 do?

In its own words: An act 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.

Status: Signed into law, June 22, 2025

What the bill says

An act 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.

From the enrolled text, May 29, 2025:

AN ACT 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. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsections (l) and (l-1) and adding Subsections (l-4) and (u) to read as follows: (l) A school district[ADDED: or open-enrollment charter school] shall require a student enrolled in full-day prekindergarten, in kindergarten, or in a grade level below grade six to participate in moderate or vigorous daily physical activity for at least 30 minutes throughout the school year as part of the district's[ADDED: or ] [ADDED: school's]physical education curriculum or through structured activity during a school campus's daily recess. To the extent practicable, a school district[ADDED: or open-enrollment charter school] shall require a student enrolled in prekindergarten on less than a full-day basis to participate in the same type and amount of physical activity as a student enrolled in full-day prekindergarten. A school district[ADDED: or open-enrollment charter ] [ADDED: school]shall require students enrolled in grade levels six, seven, and eight to participate in moderate or vigorous daily physical activity for at least 30 minutes for at least four semesters during those grade levels as …

Texas SB25: 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.

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