S.2342: Stop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act

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Stop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for any business expenses: (1) for advertising or marketing primarily directed at children (defined as individuals under the age of 14) to promote the consumption by such children of food of poor nutritional quality or of a brand primarily associated with food of poor nutritional quality that is primarily directed at children; and (2) for related...

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Date Description
May 15, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 15, 2014

Introduced in the Senate by Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)

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