Obesity Prevention Act

Bill: 108-hr-2227
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Awards, medals, prizes
Beverages
Child nutrition
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Dairy products
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Farm produce
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Food consumption
Food service
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grain
Health counseling
Health education
Health insurance
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Internet
Labeling
Lifestyle
Medical research
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Minority children
Nutrition
Obesity
Oils and fats
Parent-school relationships
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Poor children
Presidential commissions
Preventive medicine
School districts
School health programs
School lunch program
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students
Teachers
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Obesity Prevention Act - Amends the National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of Education (ED), to award competitive grants to: (1) up to 20 State educational agencies for model nutrition education and physical fitness programs for elementary and secondary school students; and (2) up to 100 local educational agencies (LEAs), at least one per State, for pilot projects to promote healthy eating habits and increase the physical fitness of such students.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to encourage States to implement plans to carry out activities to assist obese children or children at risk of becoming obese. Requires a State, in order to receive such a grant, to: (1) have a State child health plan which provides satisfactorily for certain activities under the children health insurance program of the Social Security Act; and (2) agree to make available at least 15 percent in non-Federal matching funds. 
Establishes a Commission on Obesity Treatment and Prevention to oversee research, policy formation, and other activities of the Federal Government regarding the prevention and treatment of obesity. 
Directs the Secretary of HHS, in consultation with the Secretary of ED, to establish programs of: (1) President's Health and Fitness Awards for elementary and secondary schools; and (2) President's Health and Fitness Teacher Achievement Awards for teachers, coaches, or related personnel and the LEAs that employ them.. 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include nutrition and health education programs in authorized local activities of 21st century community learning centers' programs before- and after-school and during summer recess.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1067)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House