CAVC Victory - AB 727 Dead for This Year

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Thanks to the efforts of the members of CAVC and our lobbyist AB 727 is dead for this year. The bill failed to make it off the suspense file in the Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 727, introduced by Assembly Member Holly Mitchell, D-Calif., would have required that, by 2016, 50 percent of products in vending machines on state property comply with the nutritional standards outlined in state law (the bill as originally introduced required that 100 percent of products comply by 2016). Current law requires that 35 percent of products in vending machines on state property comply with these nutritional standards. The California Automatic Vendors Council opposed this bill throughout the session arguing that the current requirements are adequate and that imposing these restrictions places the vendors at a competitive disadvantage when cafeterias and other food outlets on state owned property would have been allowed to continue to sell the same snack and beverage items without the restrictions imposed on vending operators.

Thank you to all the CAVC members that lobbied against this bill during our legislative day in May and all of you that sent letters to your legislators. And thank you to our lobbyist at Capitol Advocacy who did a great job representing our interests on this issue!