Arkansas FAT POLICE - HB 1583 / ACT 1220

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[steplock]

This Act creates the "FAT POLICE" in Arkansas public schools. Your child will receive a "FAT GRADE" on the Report Card!

Arkansas FAT POLICE - HB 1583 / ACT 1220

HOUSE BILL 1583
State of Arkansas
84th General Assembly
By: Representatives Bradford, Biggs, Cleveland, Milligan
By: Senators Bisbee, Argue

For An Act To Be Entitled
AN ACT TO CREATE A CHILD HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE; TO COORDINATE STATEWIDE EFFORTS TO COMBAT CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND RELATED ILLNESSES; TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARKANSANS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Subtitle: AN ACT TO CREATE A CHILD HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:

SECTION 1. Arkansas Code Title 20, Chapter 7, Subchapter 1 is amended to add three (3) additional sections to read as follows:

6-7-117. Committee - Creation.
...(a) There is created a Child Health Advisory Committee to consist of fifteen (15) members.
...(b)(1) The Director of the Department of Health shall appoint:
.........(A) One (1) member to represent the Department of Health;
.........(B) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Dietetic Association;
.........(C) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Academy of Pediatrics;
.........(D) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Academy of Family Practice;
.........(E) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance;
.........(F) One (1) member to represent jointly the Arkansas Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the American Lung Association;
.........(G) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas School of Public Health of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences;
.........(H) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement;
.........(I) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Family; and
.........(J) One (1) member to represent the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
......(2) The Director of the Department of Education shall appoint:
.........(A) One (1) member to represent the Department of Education;
.........(B) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas School Food Service Association;
.........(C) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas School Nurses Association;
.........(D) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Association of Education Administrators; and
.........(E) One (1) member to represent the Arkansas Parent Teacher Association.
...(c) Terms of committee members shall be three (3) years except for the initial members whose terms shall be determined by lot so as to stagger terms to equalize as nearly as possible the number of members to be appointed each year.
...(d) If a vacancy occurs, the officer who made the original appointment shall appoint a person who represents the same constituency as the member being replaced.
...(e) The committee shall elect one (1) of its members to act as chair for a term of one (1) year.
...(f) A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.
...(g) The committee shall meet at least monthly.
...(h) The Department of Health shall provide office space and staff for the committee.
...(i) Members of the committee shall serve without pay but may receive expense reimbursement in accordance with § 25-16-902, if funds are available.

6-7-118. Powers and duties.
...(a) The Child Health Advisory Committee shall meet at least once per month and make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the State Board of Health consistent with the intent and purpose of §§ 6-7-117 through 6-7-119.
...(b) The Committee shall develop nutrition and physical activity standards and policy recommendations with consideration of the following:
......(1) Foods sold individually in school cafeterias but outside the regulated National School Lunch Program;
......(2) Competitive foods as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture, as in existence on January 1, 2003, and offered at schools typically through vending machines, student stores, school fundraisers, food carts, or food concessions;
......(3) The continuing professional development of food service staff;
......(4) The expenditure of funds derived from competitive food and beverage contracts;
......(5) Physical education and activity;
......(6) Systems to ensure the implementation of nutrition and physical activity standards; and
......(7) The monitoring and evaluating or results and reporting of outcomes.

6-17-119. Nutrition and physical activity standards - Implementation.
...(a) The State Board of Education, after having consulted the committee and the State Board of Health, shall promulgate appropriate rules and regulations to ensure that nutrition and physical activity standards are implemented to provide students with the skills, opportunities, and encouragement to adopt healthy lifestyles.
...(b) Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, the Department of Health, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall:
......(1) Employ one (1) qualified community health promotion professional, with training, experience, or both, in nutrition, chronic disease, or another related field to be housed within the Department of Health to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate pilot or model programs to support schools and communities, if funds are available;
......(2) Employ one (1) statewide health promotion consultant to be housed within the Department of Education, if funds are available;
......(3) Employ one (1) person as a community health promotion specialist to support implementation of pilot or model programs in schools and communities in nutrition and physical activity in several distinct geographical areas of the state, if funds are available; and
......(4) Not use more than five percent (5%) of the annual Department of Health Master Settlement Agreement funds for the salaries or programs created under this subsection (b).
...(c) Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, every school district shall:
......(1) Prohibit, for elementary school students, in-school access to vending machines offering food and beverages;
......(2) Require schools to include as part of the annual report to parents and the community the amounts and specific sources of funds received and expenditures made from competitive food and beverage contracts;
......(3) Require school to include as part of the student report card to parents an annual body mass index percentile by age for each student; and
......(4) Require schools to annually provide parents with an explanation of the possible health effects of body mass index, nutrition and physical activity.
...(d) Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, the Department of Education shall:
......(1) Begin the implementation of standards developed by the committee and approved by the Department of Education; and
......(2) Annually monitor and evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the nutrition and physical education standards.
...(e) Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, every school district shall:
......(1) Convene a school nutrition and physical activity advisory committee that shall include members from school district governing boards, school administrators, food service personnel, teacher organizations, parents, students, and professional groups such as nurses and community members, to:
.........(A) Help raise awareness of the importance of nutrition and physical activity; and
.........(B) Assist in the development of local policies that address issues and goals, including, but not limited to, the following:
............(i) Assisting with the implementation of nutrition and physical activity standards developed by the committee with the approval of the Department of Education and the State Board of Health;
............(ii) Integrating nutrition and physical activity into the overall curriculum;
............(iii) Ensuring that professional development for staff includes nutrition and physical activity issues;
............(iv) Ensuring that students receive nutrition
education and engage in healthful levels of vigorous physical activity;
............(v) Improving the quality of physical education curricula and increasing training of physical education teachers;
............(vi) Enforcing existing physical education requirements; and
............(vii) Pursuing contracts that both encourage healthy eating by students and reduce school dependence on profits from the sale of foods of minimal nutritional value;
......(2) Begin the implementation of standards developed by the committee with the approval of the Department of Education and the State Board of Health; and
......(3) Require that goals and objectives for nutrition and physical activity be incorporated into the annual school planning and reporting process.
...(f) The Department of Education and the Department of Health shall report annually on progress in implementing nutrition and physical education standards to the cochairs of the House and Senate Interim Committees on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.

/s/ Bradford

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[HamiltonJay]

Seems to me the money would be beter spent funding a required phsyical education program... which only 1 state has anymore.... pathetic.

[steplock]

Link above is broken - The site here didn't translate it correctly for some reason!?

Correct Link is:
http://www.gohotsprings.com/focus/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=441

Sorry for the confusion

[OXENinFLA]

This is great now the gov't can tell us what our kids can and can't eat. They are alreadt doing a GREAT job at deciding what kids can and can't learn.

I just started reading Diane Ravitch's book "The Language Police" and I advise everyone to pick it up and read some of it.

[Arkinsaw]

I am glad that they are raising our taxes this year rather than not do bureaucratic crap like this.

[OXENinFLA]

oops, I forgot to turn off the Sarcasm off after the 1st line.

[Kewlhand`tek]

i heard recently that arkansas DHS services 1 million arkansans.......thats 1/3 of the population folks.......recently the GOV said if there were no Tax increase that 1200 dhs employees were to be laid off. He said if the state legislature didnt come up with more tax hikes it would severly hurt arkansans........wait GOV dont tax hikes severly hurt us too?

[mountaineer]

Outlaw pork rinds!

[COBOL2Java]

Arkansas FAT POLICE?

[Lazamataz]

Oh, sure, they come up with this WELL AFTER Bill Clinton graduated highschool....

[bruinbirdman]

........wait GOV dont tax hikes severly hurt us too?

"...(i) Members of the committee shall serve without pay but may receive expense reimbursement in accordance with § 25-16-902, if funds are available."

yitbos

[Ken H]

They left out the provision for the annual measuring and reporting on the body mass index of Arkansas Legislators.

[sheik yerbouty]

Will Beelzebubba be separated from his Big Macs?

[mountaineer]

Speaking of Arkansas and Blubba Clinton:

A vehicle passes beneath a billboard on Interstate 30 in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, May 8, 2003, that promotes the Clinton Presidential Library. The Clinton Presidential Library Foundation has erected 10 such billboards featuring an artist's rendition of the future downtown library, hoping to make Little Rock and its library complex an international tourist destination. (AP Photo/David Quinn)

See the only presidential library that looks like a double-wide.

[sweetliberty]

It doesn't even look like a double-wide. It looks like a very long single-wide.

This state already has 1/3 of the population on the public dole at some level, and their solution is to raise taxes even more. HELLO?????? Where are thery gonna get more money when it gets to be cheaper to live off the dole than it is to work for a living and that percentage climbs even higher? RAT politics run amok.

[mountaineer]

it gets to be cheaper to live off the dole than it is to work for a living

Your comment and the Arkansas Trailer/Presidential Library reminded me of something I observed today. I was at one of those "everything for a buck" stores. Two women were walking up each aisle looking for bargains. One of them picked up an item and said, "Well, it's not like we can't afford it!"

A few minutes later, I saw them again, as one asked, "How about these cookies?" The other replied, "No, we can get those with food stamps."

[sweetliberty]

I have overheard some of the women I work with discussing who you can and cannot get away with claiming and still get benefits. One of them has a relative that works in the food stamp office and she know what they do and don't check. This particular individual is very well paid, and still is able to get food stamps at least part of the time. Judging by some of the conversations I have heard, there are a lot of them, primarily black, that have all the in's and out's of the system down cold. One of them that I know of is claiming dependents who live in another state because there is no cross-checking.

[kcvl]

One word...Homeschool.

[kcvl]

It actually looks worse than a double wide(I know, I didn't think it was possible to look worse than those photos, but, it does). It is no where near being close to finished(I can only hope that it will never be). It just makes me so proud to have it located in Arkansas.../sarcasm. How can one state be so lucky?

[kcvl]

"have all the in's and out's of the system down cold"

How to get your heatlhcare for nothing...go to the emergency room for everything(not just emergencies). They can't refuse to see you. It doesn't matter whether it's a headache, pregnancy test, cold, etc. No appointment needed as in a doctor's office(which seems to be a problem for SOME). It makes me sick. How to get your prescriptions for NOTHING(not even a dollar)...that's a little complicated but they have it down to a FINE SCIENCE. They can't spell, add or keep a job but they can figure out the FREEBIES. All colors, sexes and all bums, with kids from several different people(many druggies). The ONLY thing they pay for... ENTERTAINMENT(you don't even want to know)which brings us back to the emergency room.

Go figure...