BILL NUMBER:A10310
TITLE OF BILL: An act to create the "Healthy Kids Act" pilot program to
encourage students to develop healthy eating habits and makes an appro-
priation therefor
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Establishes the "Healthy Kids Act"
Pilot Program whereby ten school districts would be selected to receive
grants to cover the cost of selling only healthy food in school vending
machines.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This bill is a special act to create a
"Healthy Kids" pilot program under which ten school districts would be
selected to receive grant money to offset the cost of selling only heal-
thy food. In the selected districts vending machines could only provide
drinks including but not limited to: fruit based drinks that have at
least 50% fruit juice with no added sweeteners, drinking water, milk,
electrolyte replacement beverages that do not contain more than 42 grams
of added sweetener per serving and only food that complies with guide-
lines established by the US, Department of Agriculture for the school
lunch program. In return for complying with these restrictions, selected
districts could use grant money to offset costs associated with comply-
ing with the program requirements such as new vending machines and the
loss of revenue that would have been realized under pouring rights
contracts. Districts would be selected by the Education Department based
on their demonstrated commitment to encouraging kids to have healthy
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10310
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 17, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO, KOLB, THIELE, CONTE, RAIA, BARCLAY --
read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to create the "Healthy Kids Act" pilot program to encourage
students to develop healthy eating habits and makes an appropriation
therefor
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Healthy
Kids Act".
S 2. The board of regents is hereby authorized and directed to estab-
lish a three-year pilot program to encourage students to develop healthy
eating habits in not less than ten school districts in New York state.
1. School districts may apply, in accordance with criteria developed by
the board of regents, to be selected to participate in such program. In
selecting participating school districts, the board shall choose school
districts that are representative of the geographic and financial diver-
sity of the state, and have demonstrated a commitment to encouraging
students to develop healthy eating habits. The pilot program shall
commence in the 2011-2012 school year. Participating school districts
will be eligible to receive grants, insofar as such funds are made
available by the legislature.
2. A participating school district shall comply with all of the
following program requirements:
a. No beverage shall be sold to students from one-half hour before the
start of the school day until one-half hour after the end of the school
day, except for the following:
(i) fruit-based drinks that are composed of no less than fifty percent
fruit juice and have no added sweeteners;
(ii) drinking water;
(iii) milk, including but not limited to, chocolate milk, soy milk,
rice milk, and other dairy or non-dairy milk; and
(iv) electrolyte replacement beverages that do not contain more than
forty-two grams of added sweetener per twenty-ounce serving.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15859-01-0
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