Assembly Bill A10259

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Directs schools to screen for childhood obesity as part of their health services

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A10259 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7113
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง901, 903, 904, 912, 918, 803, 804, 804-a & 813, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A2517, S2437
2015-2016: A6504, S1521
2017-2018: A5151, S2724

2011-A10259 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the screening for childhood obesity by elementary and secondary schools and promotes the availability of certain healthy foods and beverages; requires instruction in schools on good health practices.

2011-A10259 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  10259

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 16, 2012
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to screening for child-
  hood obesity and instruction in good health and reducing the incidence
  of obesity

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

  Section 1. Section 901 of the education law, as amended by chapter 477
of  the laws of 2004, subdivision 1 as amended by section 57 of part A-1
of chapter 58 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  S 901. School  health  services  to  be  provided.  1.  School  health
services,  as  defined  in  subdivision  two  of  this section, shall be
provided by each school district for all students attending  the  public
schools in this state, except in the city school district of the city of
New  York,  as  provided  in  this article. School health services shall
include the services of a  registered  professional  nurse,  if  one  is
employed,  and  shall  also  include such services as may be rendered as
provided in this article in examining  students  for  the  existence  of
disease  or disability, OR MAY INCLUDE SERVICES RELATED TO EXAMINING FOR
CHILDHOOD OBESITY BASED UPON THE CALCULATION OF EACH STUDENT'S BODY MASS
INDEX AND WEIGHT STATUS CATEGORY PURSUANT TO SECTION NINE  HUNDRED  FOUR
OF THIS ARTICLE, and in testing the eyes and ears of such students.
  2.  School health services for the purposes of this article shall mean
the several procedures, including, but not limited to, medical  examina-
tions,  dental  inspection and/or screening, scoliosis screening, vision
screening [and], audiometer tests, AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY AS MEASURED  BY
BODY  MASS  INDEX  AND WEIGHT STATUS CATEGORY, designed to determine the
health status of the child;  to  inform  parents  or  other  persons  in
parental  relation  to  the child, pupils and teachers of the individual
child's health condition subject to federal  and  state  confidentiality
laws; to guide parents, children and teachers in procedures for prevent-
ing  and correcting defects [and], diseases AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY CONDI-
TIONS; to instruct the school personnel in procedures to take in case of
accident or  illness;  to  survey  and  make  necessary  recommendations

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

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