Chain restaurants won't have to list the calories involved alongside their menu items after the state Senate rejected the necessary legislation 19-14, The Associated Press reports.
"The bill was part of a set of recommendations stemming from a task force assembled last year to suggest changes to West Virginia's health care system," AP reports. "None of the 19 senators who voted against the measure on Monday spoke against it from the floor."
Update: The Charleston Gazette reports that "one of the key supporters of the bill said Monday evening he hopes the Senate will reconsider its action (Tuesday) and vote to pass the bill."
30 March 2009
Senate Rejects Calorie Count Bill
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They were all too busy eating free McFlurries to speak up.
Why did it take the Senate to kill such a silly bill? How far will the Nanny State go before we can turn it around?
Is it the Nanny State to just give us information BEFORE we order that cheeseburger.
I smell Tudor's Biscuit World all over this vote.
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