Bill Text: HI SB2593 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Health; Physical Exercise; Grant; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - (S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. [SB2593 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2593-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PHYSICAL FITNESS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that physical fitness is important to good health. An integral part of physical fitness is exercise. Keeping physically fit helps with a host of illnesses, including heart disease and diabetes which are two deadly killers in modern times. According to Get Healthy, an organization devoted to promoting healthy living, in a web article dated November 28, 2011, the United States' biggest killers today are no longer infectious diseases like polio. Instead, according to the Centers for Disease Control, among the leading causes of death are chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory diseases, which account for nearly two-thirds of deaths worldwide. The article states that in September 2011, the United Nations General Assembly hosted its first summit on chronic diseases, which found that among other preventable causes of chronic disease is the lack of exercise. The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls it "a public health emergency in slow motion."
The legislature further finds that there is a rapidly growing body of research surrounding the positive effects of exercise on the brain and on improving memory, concentration, focus, and motivation. Studies also correlate physical activity with increased academic scores and decreased behavioral and disciplinary issues. To maintain silence on the need for physical fitness is a huge oversight and disservice to the children. Poor physical health is often associated with poor mental, psychological, and emotional health, along with many other poor lifestyle habits. Physical health is at least as important an issue as medical costs and chronic illness, because the ramifications of poor physical health are far reaching and monetarily immeasurable. The legislature finds that there is a need for lifestyle interventions at the outset that must be implemented for the good of present and future generations, as well as the overall physical and mental health of the residents of Hawaii.
The legislature further finds that making a small lifestyle change can make a big difference in preventing and treating diabetes, which is a major chronic health condition in Hawaii. Diabetes can be expensive to treat and to maintain the treatment over many years, but simply exercising as well as changing the diet can make a real difference in medications, a costly aspect of diabetes treatment.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to Positive Moves, Inc., as a grant, to implement and administer the "millions of kids moving monthly" project to establish a renewed commitment in the community to live physically active lives, particularly through encouraging parents and children to exercise together.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2012-2013 as a grant, pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to Positive Moves, Inc., a registered qualified nonprofit organization, to implement and administer the "millions of kids moving monthly" project to establish a renewed commitment in the community to living a physically active live, particularly through encouraging parents and children to exercise together.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2012.
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Report Title:
Health; Physical Exercise; Grant; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds as a grant to Positive Moves, Inc., to implement and administer the "millions of kids moving monthly" project.
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