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Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the nutritional information that chain restaurants and retail food establishments must disclose. The nutrient content disclosure statement on the menu or menu board must include: (1) the number of calories contained in the whole menu item; (2) the number of servings and number of calories per serving; or (3) the number of calories per common unit of the item, such as for a multi-serving item that is typically divided before presentation to the consumer. Nutritional information may be provided solely by a remote-access menu (e.g., an Internet menu) for food establishments where the majority of orders are placed by customers who are off premises.
Establishments with self-serve food may comply with the requirements for restaurants or place signs with nutritional information adjacent to each food item.
Reasonable variations in the actual nutrient content of items are permissible, including variations in serving size or ingredients or variations due to inadvertent human error.
Establishments with standard menu items that come in different flavors, varieties, or combinations, that are listed as a single menu item can determine and disclose nutritional information using specified methods or methods allowed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Regulations pursuant to this Act cannot take effect earlier than two years after final regulations are promulgated.
The FDA must give establishments in violation of nutritional labeling requirements 90 days to correct violations.
The FDA may no longer allow states or localities to vary from federal nutritional labeling requirements for chain restaurants.
(Sec. 3) Restaurants and retail food establishments are not liable in a civil action for claims regarding federal or state nutritional labeling requirements unless the action is brought by the United States or a state.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2017 as passed House amended on Feb 12, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Feb 12, 2016Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveFeb 12, 2016
House Feb 12, 2016 · the primary vote
Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2015
Passed
266 Yea 144 Nay 22 not voting · 1 present
Party-line vote 34 of 410 voting members broke with their own party: 33 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2017 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 2017 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
130 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.