Establishes an excise tax of $0.0175 per fluid ounce on distributors of sugar-sweetened beverages.
Low-income recipients of SNAP, children preamble section, food insecure
Health outcomes, metabolic syndrome diabetes, obesity; preamble
Economic outcomes preamble
Describes food security gap preamble
The City finds and declares that the expansion of access to healthy and affordable food, closing the food security gap, promoting healthy nutrition choices, reducing disparities in social, developmental, and educational readiness and learning for children, assisting high school graduates to enter college, and expanding services for the birth-to-five population and their families are of the utmost importance to creating a thriving and livable city for all of the people of Seattle Section 1.
5.53.020 Definitions
Director of Finance and Administrative Services to make rules Sec. 5.55.165
Director of Finance and Administrative Services 5.55.220
The City Auditor shall contract with academic researchers to complete an annual evaluation of the effects of the tax. In contracting with academic researchers, the City Auditor should consider researchers with a proven track record of rigorous policy evaluation for impacts on behavior, health, and economic outcomes. Section 5B.