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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2017 
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve and clarify 
certain disclosure requirements for restaurants and similar retail food 
establishments, and to amend the authority to bring proceedings under 
section 403A. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 23, 2015 
Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS (for herself and Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali-
fornia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to 
improve and clarify certain disclosure requirements for 
restaurants and similar retail food establishments, and 
to amend the authority to bring proceedings under sec-
tion 403A. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Common Sense Nutri-
tion Disclosure Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDING CERTAIN DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS 
FOR RESTAURANTS AND SIMILAR RETAIL 
FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS. 
Section 403(q)(5)(H) of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 343(q)(5)(H)) is amended— 
(1) in subclause (ii)— 
(A) in item (I)(aa), by striking ‘‘the num-
ber of calories contained in the standard menu 
item, as usually prepared and offered for sale’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the number of calories contained 
in the whole standard menu item, or the num-
ber of servings and number of calories per serv-
ing, or the number of calories per the common 
unit division of the standard menu item, such 
as for a multiserving item that is typically di-
vided before presentation to the consumer’’; 
(B) in item (II)(aa), by striking ‘‘the num-
ber of calories contained in the standard menu 
item, as usually prepared and offered for sale’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the number of calories contained 
in the whole standard menu item, or the num-
ber of servings and number of calories per serv-
ing, or the number of calories per the common 
unit division of the standard menu item, such 
as for a multiserving item that is typically di-
vided before presentation to the consumer’’; and 
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(C) by adding at the end the following 
flush text: 
‘‘In the case of restaurants or similar retail food es-
tablishments where the majority of orders are placed 
by customers who are off-premises at the time such 
order is placed, the information required to be dis-
closed under items (I) through (IV) may be provided 
by a remote-access menu (such as a menu available 
on the Internet) as the sole method of disclosure in-
stead of on-premises writings.’’; 
(2) in subclause (iii)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘either’’ after ‘‘a res-
taurant or similar retail food establishment 
shall’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or comply with subclause 
(ii)’’ after ‘‘per serving’’; 
(3) in subclause (iv)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘For the purposes of this 
clause’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—For the purposes of 
this clause,’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘and other reasonable 
means’’ and inserting ‘‘or other reasonable 
means’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
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