Bill Text: CA AB2175 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education: childhood obesity.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-21 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 23. [AB2175 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2175-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2175	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act relating to education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2175, as introduced, Hayashi. Education: childhood obesity.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Education to ensure
that the nutrition level of meals served to schoolage children is of
the highest quality and greatest nutritional level possible.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to decrease the number of children classified as obese or
overweight by, among other things, educating all children in school
about making healthier food choices and the importance of regular
physical activity.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to decrease the number of children classified as obese or
overweight by, among other things, educating all children in school
about making healthier food choices and the importance of regular
physical activity.