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Assembly Bill A11075

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes the "healthy schools act"; repealer

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2009-A11075 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2599-b & 2599-c, Pub Health L; amd §§305 & 2854, add §§920, 921 & 922, rpld & add §915, Ed L; amd §§1 & 2, Chap 537 of 1976

2009-A11075 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the "healthy schools act"; provides for media health promotional campaigns; requires department of health to promote best practices to support healthy nutritional choices and conduct BMI surveys; provides technical assistance to implement the act, which establishes additional nutritional standards for food and beverages made available at schools.

2009-A11075 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A11075 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  11075

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 13, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
  department  of  health  to develop media health promotion campaigns to
  communicate positive correlations between  health,  physical  activity
  and academic performance; to require the department of health to iden-
  tify  and  promote  best practices in communities to support healthful
  nutritional choices; to require the department of  education  and  the
  department  of  health  to  provide technical assistance to schools in
  complying with nutritional standards; to amend the education  law  and
  chapter  537  of  the laws of 1976, relating to paid, free and reduced
  price breakfast for eligible pupils in certain  school  districts,  in
  relation  to establishing nutritional standards for food and beverages
  available in schools, requiring school wellness policies, and  expand-
  ing  the  school  breakfast  program; and repealing section 915 of the
  education law and section 2 of chapter 537 of the laws of 1976, relat-
  ing to paid, free and reduced price breakfast for eligible  pupils  in
  certain school districts relating thereto

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
the "healthy schools act".
  S  2. Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subdivision 2 of section 2599-b of the
public health law, as amended by section 88 of part B of chapter  58  of
the laws of 2005, are amended to read as follows:
  (a)  developing  media health promotion campaigns targeted to children
and adolescents and their parents and caregivers that emphasize increas-
ing consumption of  low-calorie,  [high-nutrient]  NUTRIENT-RICH  foods,
decreasing   consumption  of  high-calorie,  low-nutrient  foods  [and],
increasing physical activity designed to prevent or reduce obesity,  AND
COMMUNICATING  THE  POSITIVE  CORRELATION BETWEEN CHILD HEALTH, PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE;
  (c) (I)  establishing  community-based  childhood  obesity  prevention
nutrition education and physical activity programs including programs TO

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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