Sec. 6. Healthy food and beverage options at state cafeterias, snack bars and vending machines. The Department of Labor, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, Division of the Blind and Visually Impaired shall:

1. Implement recommendations of food choice committees to include healthy food and beverage options at cafeterias, snack bars and vending machines under the division's purview. These food choice committees shall consider providing price incentives for purchase of healthy foods and beverages;

2. Develop a system for tracking food purchases at cafeterias and snack bars and in vending machines under the division's purview;

3. Perform nutritional analysis on all major-selling food items and post caloric and nutritional information at cafeterias and snack bars under the division's purview; and

4. Include in the food choice committee for any executive department that uses a cafeteria or snack bar under the division's purview a wellness coordinator from that department.

Sec. 7. Investigation of insurance cost savings. The State Employee Health Commission, established pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 285-A, shall direct any insurance carrier providing health insurance coverage to state employees, retirees or MaineCare participants to investigate the cost savings of including the following services as part of that coverage, and if cost savings are shown, shall strongly recommend implementation of these services: body-mass index assessment; intensive counseling and behavioral interventions for any employee with a body-mass index of at least 30 kilograms per square meter; and evidence-based interventions for any employee with a body-mass index of at least 25 kilograms per square meter who is 45 years of age or older and has been diagnosed with prediabetes.

Sec. 8. Encouragement of insurance incentives. The Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance shall compose and distribute a letter to all carriers, as that term is defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 24-A, section 4301- A, subsection 3, encouraging those carriers to provide incentives for their insureds to engage in the following services: body- mass index assessment; intensive counseling and