Bill Text: NY S04763 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the office of nutrition and fitness.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S04763 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04763-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4763

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to creating the office of
          nutrition and fitness

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The executive law is amended by adding a new article 24-A
     2  to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 24-A
     4                       OFFICE OF NUTRITION AND FITNESS
     5  Section 667. Statement of policy.
     6          668. Definitions.
     7          669. Office of nutrition and fitness; director.
     8          670. Powers and duties.
     9          671. Actions by other officers, departments, boards, commissions
    10                 or agencies.
    11    § 667. Statement of policy. The legislature hereby reaffirms its poli-
    12  cy to promote health and nutrition to protect the public from  preventa-
    13  ble  diseases causally related to obesity by developing and implementing
    14  a plan to educate and encourage health and nutrition in the  state;  and
    15  recognizes  that  furtherance  of  such  policy requires creation in the
    16  executive department of an office of nutrition and  fitness  with  staff
    17  and  skills  requisite  to act as the governor's agent in developing and
    18  implementing healthy nutrition and fitness programs, to assure the prop-
    19  er implementation and administration of such programs, and to assist the
    20  governor and direct and coordinate the state's efforts  with  regard  to
    21  overall nutrition and fitness and the prevention of obesity.
    22    § 668. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
    23    1. "Director" shall mean the director of nutrition and fitness.
    24    2. "Office" shall mean the office of nutrition and fitness.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09212-01-1
        S. 4763                             2

     1    § 669. Office  of  nutrition  and  fitness;  director. There is hereby
     2  created an office of nutrition and fitness in the executive  department.
     3  The  head  of  the office shall be the director of nutrition and fitness
     4  who shall be appointed by, and hold office at the pleasure of the gover-
     5  nor. He or she shall receive a salary to be fixed by the governor within
     6  the  amount  appropriated  therefor. The director may appoint such depu-
     7  ties, assistants, consultants and other employees as may be  needed  for
     8  the  performance of his or her duties and may prescribe their powers and
     9  duties and fix their compensation within the amount appropriated  there-
    10  for. Such office may have an office seal.
    11    § 670. Powers  and duties. The director shall assist the governor with
    12  regard to developing policy and programs to improve  the  nutrition  and
    13  fitness of the people of New York.
    14    § 671. Actions  by other officers, departments, boards, commissions or
    15  agencies. 1. Notwithstanding any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  any
    16  state  officer,  department,  board,  commission  or agency, shall, upon
    17  written request from the director, take  such  administrative  or  other
    18  action  as  is necessary to implement and administer the programs devel-
    19  oped by the office. Such action may  include,  without  limitation,  the
    20  adoption, repeal or amendment of rules, regulations or other procedures.
    21  In  particular,  the  director  shall  work  closely  with the education
    22  department to develop and implement programs to improve the  health  and
    23  nutrition  of  students  in  school and with the department of health to
    24  develop and implement the findings and recommendations  of  the  obesity
    25  prevention  act,  as  established  in  title  five of article two of the
    26  public health law, as added by chapter five hundred thirty-eight of  the
    27  laws of two thousand two.
    28    2.  All  state officers, departments, boards, commissions and agencies
    29  are authorized and directed to provide such other  and  further  assist-
    30  ance,  services and data as may be necessary to allow the director prop-
    31  erly to carry out his or her functions, powers and duties.
    32    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    33  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    34  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    35  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    36  completed on or before such effective date.