Senate Bill S7113

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Directs schools to screen for childhood obesity as part of their health services

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S7113 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10259
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง901, 903, 904, 912, 918, 803, 804, 804-a & 813, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S2437, A2517
2015-2016: S1521, A6504
2017-2018: S2724, A5151

2011-S7113 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the screening for childhood obesity by elementary and secondary schools and promotes the availability of certain healthy foods and beverages; requires instruction in schools on good health practices.

2011-S7113 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S7113 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7113

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 30, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to screening  for  child-
  hood obesity and instruction in good health and reducing the incidence
  of obesity

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 901 of the education law, as amended by chapter 477
of the laws of 2004, subdivision 1 as amended by section 57 of part  A-1
of chapter 58 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  S 901. School  health  services  to  be  provided.  1.  School  health
services, as defined in  subdivision  two  of  this  section,  shall  be
provided  by  each school district for all students attending the public
schools in this state, except in the city school district of the city of
New York, as provided in this  article.  School  health  services  shall
include  the  services  of  a  registered  professional nurse, if one is
employed, and shall also include such services as  may  be  rendered  as
provided  in  this  article  in  examining students for the existence of
disease or disability, OR MAY INCLUDE SERVICES RELATED TO EXAMINING  FOR
CHILDHOOD OBESITY BASED UPON THE CALCULATION OF EACH STUDENT'S BODY MASS
INDEX  AND  WEIGHT STATUS CATEGORY PURSUANT TO SECTION NINE HUNDRED FOUR
OF THIS ARTICLE, and in testing the eyes and ears of such students.
  2. School health services for the purposes of this article shall  mean
the  several procedures, including, but not limited to, medical examina-
tions, dental inspection and/or screening, scoliosis  screening,  vision
screening  [and], audiometer tests, AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY AS MEASURED BY
BODY MASS INDEX AND WEIGHT STATUS CATEGORY, designed  to  determine  the
health  status  of  the  child;  to  inform  parents or other persons in
parental relation to the child, pupils and teachers  of  the  individual
child's  health  condition  subject to federal and state confidentiality
laws; to guide parents, children and teachers in procedures for prevent-
ing and correcting defects [and], diseases AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY  CONDI-
TIONS; to instruct the school personnel in procedures to take in case of
accident  or  illness;  to  survey  and  make  necessary recommendations

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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