TEXAS
Starts: 4/1/2026
Restricts: Restricts purchase of sweetened drinks and candy.
Additional Notes 📝 : These items include energy drinks, sweetened and carbonated beverages, candy, potato or corn chips, and cookies. The policy draws a clear line between foods that offer substantial nutritional benefits and those that contribute to poor health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
However, not all beverages or packaged goods are excluded. Milk and plant-based milk alternatives such as soy, almond, and rice milk will still be eligible, along with beverages that contain only non-caloric sweeteners and have no added sugars. The law also preserves access to fruit and vegetable juices without added sugar, infant formula, and medically necessary nutritional products.

OKLAHOMA
Starts: 1/1/2026
Restricts: Restricts purchase of soft drinks and candy.
Additional Notes 📝 : The change, effective Jan. 1, 2026, prohibits the use of the program to purchase items such as chocolate bars, hard candies, gummies, caramels, taffy, licorice, mints and chewing gum.
It would not prohibit the purchase of baked goods, such as cakes, muffins, brownies, pastries and bread.
Prohibited items also include carbonated sodas, energy and sports drinks, sweetened teas and lemonades and flavored waters with sweeteners.
Coffee, unsweetened tea, milk and certain fruit and vegetable juices would not be prohibited.