94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0733


 
Introduced 2/1/2005, by Rep. William Delgado
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













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    Amends the School Code.  Requires the State Board of Education to establish a State goal that all school districts have a wellness policy that is consistent with recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Requires the Department of Public Health and the State Board to form an interagency working group to publish model wellness policies and sample programs.  Requires the State Board to establish a pilot project to implement model wellness policies.  Creates the School Wellness Policy Taskforce to identify barriers to implementing wellness policies, recommend how to reduce those barriers, recommend statewide school nutrition standards, and evaluate the effectiveness of wellness policies.  Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning schools.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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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 sample programs.  Sample programs 
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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.  Subject to appropriation, the State Board 
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of Education shall establish a $500,000 pilot project to 
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implement model wellness policies.
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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 Consortium to Lower Obesity 
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in Chicago Children, and the Illinois Chapter of the American 
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Academy of Pediatrics; and one at-large member with a doctorate  
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in nutrition.  Each member of the taskforce shall be appointed 
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by the head of the entity that the member represents, except 
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that the at-large member shall be appointed by the State Board 
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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.   Reports shall be made to the General Assembly by filing 
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copies of each report as provided in Section 3.1 of the General 
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Assembly Organization Act.  Upon the filing of the last report, 
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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.