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Read. Follow. Verify.Arizona establishes the Healthy Arizona Study Committee to examine sugary beverage consumption and health impacts
Last action · February 11, 2026: W/DSponsors: Leo Biasiucci and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
The Arizona Legislature would establish an eleven-member Healthy Arizona Study Committee to investigate the health and fiscal effects of sugary beverage consumption, identify funding sources, and report its findings and recommendations by December 1, 2026. Committee members would receive expense reimbursement but no compensation, and the committee would dissolve on September 30, 2027.
Creates an official state body tasked with evaluating potential policy changes and funding sources regarding sugary beverages, involving experts from public health, agriculture, hunger relief, tribal relations, and industry.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Beverage Industry
Appoints one representative to the study committee to participate in evaluating sugary beverage consumption and fiscal impacts.
State Agency Directors
Responsible for appointing specific subject matter experts from health, agriculture, economic security, education, and parks to serve on the committee.
Arizona Residents
May experience future state-level policy changes or resource allocations resulting from the committee's findings on health outcomes and sugary beverage consumption.
Key Facts
- The Healthy Arizona Study Committee consists of 11 appointed members representing public health, agriculture, hunger relief, child nutrition, physical activity, small businesses, the beverage industry, tribal relations, rural health, and two members of the House of Representatives.
- The committee is required to meet at least once, solicit expert and community input on the health and fiscal impacts of sugary beverage consumption, assess state-level policies and resources to improve health, and identify potential funding sources.
- The committee must submit a report of its activities, findings, and recommendations to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives by December 1, 2026, and provide a copy to the secretary of state.
- Committee members serve without compensation but are eligible for expense reimbursement pursuant to title 38, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, and the statute establishing the committee is repealed starting September 30, 2027.
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This bill did not become law - Died on the House floor.
Procedural history
3 actions- Feb 11, 2026HouseW/D
- Feb 10, 2026HouseFloorHouse Second Reading
- Feb 9, 2026HouseIntroducedHouse First Reading
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 35)
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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