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Sugar-sweetened beverage tax introduced in California

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 1 2013

Proposed legislation (S.B. 622) in California would impose a 1-cent per fluid ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages to finance a Children's Health

Texas legislator calls for beverage tax

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 1 2013

Rep. Joe Farias (D-San Antonio) has proposed a bill (H.B. 779) that would impose a statewide penny-per-ounce tax on soft drinks, particular sweetened

Study advocates penny-per-ounce soft drink tax

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2012

A recent study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and American Heart Association claims that a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages would reduce consumption by 15 percent among adults ages 25 to 64 years