Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 2/24/2005
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 733 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 733  by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
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    "Section 5. The School Code is amended  by adding Section 
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2-3.137 as follows:
 
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    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.137 new)

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    Sec. 2-3.137. School wellness policies; taskforce.

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    (a) The State Board of Education shall establish a State 
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goal that all school districts have a wellness policy that is 
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consistent with recommendations of the Centers for Disease 
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Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommendations include 
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the following:
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        (1) nutrition guidelines for all foods sold on school 
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    campus during the school day;
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        (2) setting school goals for nutrition education and 
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    physical activity;
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        (3) establishing community participation in creating 
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    local wellness policies; and
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        (4) creating a plan for measuring implementation of 
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    these wellness policies.
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    The Department of Public Health and State Board of 
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Education shall form an interagency working group to publish 
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model wellness policies and recommendations.  Sample policies 
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shall be based on CDC recommendations for nutrition and 
 


 






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physical activity.  The State Board of Education shall 
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distribute the model wellness policies to all school districts 
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before June 1, 2006.
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    (b) There is created the School Wellness Policy Taskforce, 
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consisting of

one member representing each of  the following 
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entities: the State Board of Education, the Department of 
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Public Health, the Department of Human Services, the Illinois 
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School Food Service Association, the Illinois School Health 
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Association, the Illinois Association of School Nurses, the 
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Illinois Dietetic Association, the Illinois Association of 
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School Administrators, the Illinois Association of School 
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Boards, the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents 
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of Schools, the Illinois PTA, the American Heart Association, 
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the Illinois State Dental Society, the American Cancer Society, 
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the Healthy Schools Campaign, the Illinois Association for 
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Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, the 
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Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, and the 
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Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics; and one 
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at-large member with a doctorate  in nutrition.  Each member of 
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the taskforce shall be appointed by the head of the entity that 
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the member represents, except that the at-large member shall be 
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appointed by the State Board of Education.
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    Members of the taskforce shall serve without compensation.  
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The taskforce shall meet at the call of the State Board of 
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Education.  The taskforce shall report its identification of 
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barriers to implementing school wellness policies and its 
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recommendations to reduce those barriers to the General 
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Assembly and the Governor on or before January 1, 2006.  The 
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taskforce shall report its recommendations on statewide school 
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nutrition standards to the General Assembly and the Governor on 
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or before January 1, 2007.   The taskforce shall report its 
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evaluation of the effectiveness of school wellness policies to 
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the General Assembly and the Governor on or before January 1, 
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2008.   The evaluation shall review a sample size of 5 to 10 
 


 






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school districts. Reports shall be made to the General Assembly 
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by filing copies of each report as provided in Section 3.1 of 
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the General Assembly Organization Act.  Upon the filing of the 
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last report, the taskforce is dissolved.

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    (c) The State Board of Education may adopt any rules 
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necessary to implement this Section.

 
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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.".