times during the first 2 years after the appointment
of the members of the Council. Such meetings shall
be at the call of the Chairperson, or on the written
request of one-third of the members of the Advisory
Council.
(2) INITIAL MEETING.—The Advisory Council
shall have its first meeting not later than 120 days
after the date of enactment of this Act.
(3) QUORUM.—A majority of the appointed
members of the Advisory Council shall constitute a
quorum.
(d) EMPLOYMENT AND EXPENSES.—
(1) EMPLOYMENT.—Appointed members of the
Advisory Council may not be full-time employees of
the Federal Government.
(2) EXPENSES.—While away from their homes
or regular places of business on the business of the
Advisory Council, members of the Council shall be
allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of
subsistence, as is authorized under section 5703 of
title 5, United States Code, for persons employed
intermittently in the Government service.
(e) FUNCTIONS
AND ACTIVITIES.—The Advisory
Council shall—
(1) establish national Healthy Students-Healthy
Schools Goals based on existing data and research,
including the Healthy People 2000 Objectives, iden-
tify the activities required to meet such goals, and
identify the responsible Federal agencies or individ-
uals with respect to each such goal;
(2) review existing comprehensive school health
education standards, programs and curricula in ele-
mentary and secondary schools and review and
evaluate Federally-supported health education pro-
grams currently being implemented in schools;
(3) develop a model framework for sequential
comprehensive school health education programs and
curricula, including sample materials and methods
for distribution to schools and to educators for use
in kindergarten through 12th grade that shall in-
clude—
(A) health education;
(B) physical fitness education;
(C) counseling; and
(D) community-based, school-site health
promotion programs for faculty, staff, parents,
and family;
(4) develop and incorporate model school health
education guidelines and evaluation mechanisms, in-
cluding the gathering of baseline data, in the model
framework for programs and curricula established
under paragraph (1);
(5) provide scientific and technical advice con-
cerning the development and implementation of all
components of comprehensive school health edu-
cation programs and the reduction of categorical
barriers to comprehensive school health education;
(6) recommend uniform methods for effectively
linking research findings at the Federal level with
implementation at the State and local level; and
(7) serve in an advisory capacity to the Sec-
retary and other Federal agencies.
SEC. 6. HEALTHY STUDENTS-HEALTHY SCHOOLS INTER-
AGENCY TASK FORCE.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall es-
tablish a Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Interagency
task force that shall be staffed by the Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion and be composed of rep-
resentatives of the Office of Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion, the National Institutes of Health, the
Centers for Disease Control, and other Federal agencies
and departments, including the Extension Service of the
Department of Agriculture, which have responsibility for
components of school health and education, including
AIDS prevention, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, in-
jury prevention, physical fitness, and nutrition.
(b) CO-CHAIRPERSONS.—The Assistant Secretary for
Health, Public Health Service, and the Assistant Sec-
retary for Education (Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation) shall serve as co-chairpersons of the task force es-
tablished under subsection (a).
(c) FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES.—The task force es-
tablished under subsection (a) shall—
(1) review and coordinate all Federal school
health education efforts in school health education,
including drug and alcohol abuse prevention edu-
cation, HIV prevention education, physical fitness,
school services, and nutrition;
(2) provide scientific and technical advice con-
cerning the development and implementation of the
model framework comprehensive school health edu-
cation programs and curricula to be developed under
section 5;
(3) develop a consolidated grant application
form (a form that serves as the main document con-
taining the core information concerning a particular
entity) and procedures that may be used with re-
spect to all school health-related programs (including
supplementary information procedures to be imple-
mented when an entity that has already submitted
a consolidated application form is applying for addi-
tional assistance) that require the submission of an
application; and
(4) serve in an advisory capacity to and assist
the Office designated by the Secretary under section
4, and other Federal agencies.
SEC. 7. FUNCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY.
The Secretary, with the assistance of the Advisory
Council, shall—
(1) foster the interaction, coordination, and
partnerships needed to create Healthy American
Schools among Federal agencies, State and local
governments, 
school 
administrators, 
educators,
school nurses and other school health providers, the
private sector, scientific communities, community-
based organizations, health professionals, parents,
and students;
(2) update progress toward achieving relevant
Healthy People 2000 Objectives and the Healthy
Students-Healthy Schools Goals established under
this Act by establishing a national monitoring sys-
tem to be implemented in schools and administered
by the States and local educational agencies;
(3) ensure the timely implementation of the ac-
tivities and nationwide mechanisms necessary for
achieving and monitoring progress toward such ob-
jectives and goals;
(4) submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress and the States an annual report, that shall
include data on relevant agency budgets for each fis-
cal year, as required by section 9; and
(5) recognize, in the annual report, schools that
have demonstrated exemplary efforts in becoming
Healthy American Schools and provide a short eval-
uation to States that incorporate the Healthy Stu-
dents-Healthy Schools Goals.
SEC. 8. HEALTHY AMERICAN SCHOOLS GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Secretary, acting
through the Office designated under section 4(a), is au-
thorized to award grants to States and local educational
agencies to assist the schools under the jurisdiction of
such States and agencies in becoming Healthy American
Schools that teach comprehensive sequential school health
education programs which, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, make use of advanced technologies, such as com-
puter-based learning and innovative communication chan-
nels.
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To encourage all schools to be-
come Healthy American Schools, the Secretary shall in-
sure that every public elementary and secondary school in
the United States is eligible to receive assistance under
this section and that such assistance shall be distributed
among all geographic areas, including rural, urban, and
suburban areas.
(c) USES OF GRANTS.—Amounts awarded under this
section shall be used to establish and implement programs
that meet the goals of the Healthy Students-Healthy
Schools program, which shall include—
(1) teacher training in sequential school health
education and related in-service training;
(2) healthy school environment standards;
(3) personal health and fitness activities;
(4) nutrition education and nutritious food
services;
(5) mental health wellness programs;
(6) chronic disease prevention programs;
(7) substance abuse prevention education;
(8) prevention of intentional and unintentional
injury and safety education;
(9) community and environmental health activi-
ties;
(10) family life education activities;
(11) activities for the prevention and control of
communicable diseases;
(12) activities for the effective use of the health
services delivery systems;
(13) development and aging activities; and
(14) worksite health promotion programs and
partnerships with community-based organizations
and the private sector.
(d) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant
under this section, an entity shall prepare and submit to
the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner,
and containing or accompanied by such information as the
Secretary may reasonably require. Each such application
shall—
(1) describe the comprehensive school health
education program for which assistance is sought,
particularly the activities described in subsection (b);
(2) provide assurances that qualified health
educators will teach or supervise the programs for
which assistance is sought;
(3) provide assurance that the State, relevant
local educational agency, or Indian tribe will involve
the community, on an on-going basis, in the plan-
ning, implementation and evaluation of the pro-
grams for which assistance is sought, including the
establishment of partnerships with the private sec-
tor, cooperative extension systems of land-grant uni-
versities, nonprofit public agencies, organizations,
community-based organizations, parents, and stu-
dents;
(4) provide assurance that funding made avail-
able under this section will be used in a coordinated
and cooperative manner with other school health
education programs that the State, local educational
agency or Indian tribe may be undertaking and will
not duplicate other school health education pro-
grams;
(5) provide assurances that the State or Indian
tribe will submit an annual report on the program
to the Secretary (in the case of a local education
agency, it shall submit an annual report to the State
which shall then submit a Statewide report to the
Secretary) to be integrated into the annual report
required under section 9; and
(6) provide assurances that the State or Indian
tribe will provide matching funds, through monetary
or in kind contribution, in an amount that equals 25
percent of the amount of the grant.
(e) OUTSTANDING HEALTHY AMERICAN SCHOOL
AWARDS.—The Secretary shall annually recognize schools
that epitomize the Healthy Students-Healthy Schools
Goals established under this Act and shall award such
schools a commemorative plaque and a $1,000 cash
award.
SEC. 9. EVALUATION AND ANNUAL REPORT.
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Secretary shall uni-
formly collect, compile, and preserve data concerning
school health education programs and curricula through-
out the United States.
(b) DATA COLLECTION.—The Secretary shall develop
and ensure the implementation of a system for the collec-
tion of data that uniformly measures and evaluates the
impact of school health education programs and curricula
to determine—
(1) the effectiveness of such programs in pro-
moting progress toward achieving relevant Healthy
People 2000 Objectives and the Healthy Students-
Healthy Schools Goals established under this Act;
and
(2) the impact of such programs on related
health indicators such as absenteeism and teen-age
pregnancy rates.
(c) RESULTS OF EVALUATIONS.—
(1) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than Janu-
ary 1, 1994, and annually thereafter, the Secretary
shall prepare and publish a report that—
(A) evaluates the status of school health
education in the United States, including the
impact and effectiveness of the health education
programs and curricula of each State;
(B) measures national progress towards
achieving relevant Healthy People 2000 Objec-
tives and the Healthy Students-Healthy Schools
Goals established under this Act; and
(C) recognizes outstanding Healthy Amer-
ican Schools.
(2) ENTITIES RECEIVING REPORT.—In January
of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit the re-
port required under subsection (c) to the appropriate
committees of the Congress and to the States to aid
in the program evaluation and development efforts
of such States.
SEC. 10. PROGRAM FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AMONG INDIAN STU-
DENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior, act-
ing through the Bureau of Indian Affairs and in consulta-
tion and cooperation with the Secretary of Health and
Human Services and the Secretary of Education, shall de-
velop and, not later than the date that is 1 year after the
date of enactment of this Act, implement a program which
provides gender and culturally competent sequential com-
prehensive health education and physical education to stu-
dents enrolled in elementary and secondary schools oper-
ated by, or on behalf of, the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(b) COURSES
OF INSTRUCTION
AND PARTICIPA-
TION.—
(1) COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.—The program
which the Secretary of the Interior is required to de-
velop under subsection (a) shall provide courses of
instruction for each grade of elementary and second-
ary school in a manner that ensures sequential, pro-
gressive, comprehensive, and continuous instruction.
(2) PARTICIPATION.—Except as otherwise pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Interior, all students
enrolled in schools operated by, or on behalf of, the
Bureau of Indian Affairs shall participate in the
courses of instruction provided at such schools under
the program developed under subsection (a).
(c) CONSULTATION.—In developing and implement-
ing the program required under subsection (a), the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall consult with—