LD 796
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values, total calories, saturated and total fat percentages, sodium
content, sugar content and total carbohydrate content;

 
5. Directs school boards, after September 2007 to prohibit
advertising of foods and beverages other than "healthy foods and
beverages" on school grounds;

 
6. Directs the Department of Education, by January 2006, in
collaboration with the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council, to
implement a pilot program to install dairy vending machines
selling flavored and unflavored milk with 1% or less fat in
schools;

 
7. Prohibits schools from using food and beverages as a reward
or incentive for learning or behavior in a school setting;

 
8. Requires that, after December 2005, at the termination of
an existing contractual agreement for teachers in a school
administrative unit, the new contractual agreement must provide
at least 20-minute lunch periods for students and teachers;

 
9. Directs the Department of Education and the Department of
Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to collaborate to implement
the National Farm to School Program to provide local fruits and
vegetables in schools;

 
10. Requires confidential assessments of the height and
weight of all Maine schoolchildren in kindergarten and grades 1,
3, 5, 7 and 9 and compilation and reporting of this data. Each
school also is required to provide the parents of schoolchildren
who participate in this assessment with a confidential report on
their child's weight, height and body-mass index, as well as
accompanying information;

 
11. Directs schools to require elementary and middle school
students to participate in 150 minutes of physical activity per
week outside of recess and high school students to participate in
220 minutes of physical activity per week and establishes a
physical education consultant position within the Department of
Education; and

 
12. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services,
Bureau of Health and the Attorney General to determine by January
31, 2006 whether advertising of foods and beverages other than
"healthy foods and beverages," as defined by rule, directed at
children 12 years of age or younger legally can be and should be
restricted on Maine television stations. Additionally, the
Bureau of Health is directed to make a report of its findings to
the Legislature.


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