Resolve, To Establish a Schoolchildren's Well-being Stakeholder Group Refer,ence to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered printed.
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1106
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: BOLAND, JACKSON, MAGNAN, RANKIN, RUSSELL, SCHATZ, STUCKEY

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124th MAINE LEGISLA u 
Legislative Document 
No. 1106 
H.P.761 
House of Representatives, March 20, 2009 
Resolve, To Establish a Schoolchildren's Well-being Stakeholder 
Group 
Refer,ence to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. ' 
Presented by Representative BOLAND of Sanford. 
Cosponsored by Senator JACKSON of Aroostook and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BEAUDOIN bfBiddefcird; MacDONALD of Boothbay, MAGNAN of 
Stockton Springs, RANKIN of Hiram, RUSSELL of Portland, SCHATZ of Blue Hill, 
STUCKEY of Portland. 
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Sec. 1. 
Schoolchildren's well.,.being stakeholder group established. 
Resolved: That the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human 
Services, referred to in tIlls resolve as the departments, shall, within existing budgeted 
resources, convene a schoolchildren's well-being stakehoider group, referred to in this 
resolve as "the stakeholder group"; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Stakeholder group membership. R.esolved: That the departments 
shall invite participation by: 
A. Representatives from academia involved in food science research or studies; 
B. Representatives from the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association; 
C. Researchers or executives from the food science industry; 
D. School nutritionists; 
E. School nurses; 
F. Special education teachers and other teachers; 
G. Parents of schoolchildren; and 
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H. Any other interested parties; and be it further 
Sec. 3. Duties. R.esolved: That the stakeholder group shall identify options and 
alternatives to improve and maintain the nutritional well-being of schoolchildren. In 
. undertaking its work under this section, the stakeholder group's goal is to make 
recommendations to improve childhood health and student performance through 
. nutritional strategies that include food choices and dietary supplementation with' 
particular emphases on addressing childhood behavioral disorders, attention-deficit and 
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders, autism spectrum disorders and child obesity; and 
be it further 
Sec. 4. 
Report. 
Resolved: That, no later than December 15, 2009, the 
departments shall jointly subnlit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education 
and Cultural Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on Health arid Human Services 
that includes the findings of the stakeholder group, the options and alternatives developed 
by the stakeholder group and any analysis by the departments of those options and 
alternatives. The report may include suggested legislation. The Joint Standing Committee 
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on Health and Human Services and the Joint Standing Committee on Education and 
Cultural Affairs may. each subnlit legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 124th 
Legislature related to the report-ofthe.departments. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve requires the Department of Education and the Department of Health and 
Human Services to jointly convene a stakeholder group to identify options and 
alternatives to improve and maintain the nutritional well-being of schoolchildren. In 
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pal1icular, the focus of the· stakeholder group will be to explore ways and make 
recoITuilendations to address childhood behavioral disorders, attention-deficit and 
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders, autism spectrum disorders and child obesity 
through nutritional strategies that include food choices and dietary supplementation. The 
departments will present the work of the stakeholder group to the Joint Standing 
Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on 
Health and Human Services and inay suggest legislation to the joint standing committees, 
which may in turn submit legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 124th 
Legislature.