SB26


 * SB26 - Get Fit**
 * Sponsors:** EKushan and KDeranek


 * Purpose:** The purpose of this bill is to eliminate childhood obesity within the next generation. This bill will help kids eat right, become healthier, excersie the amount of time needed, and live longer lives. This bill will also lower heath care costs.


 * Eligibility:** Children ages five to eighteen will be the most affected by this bill. The parents of the childern will have to provide the heathly foods for the childern's breakfast and dinner. The parents will also have to provide money for the children if they plan on buying their lunch at school. The employees of the school who work in the kitchen will also be effected because they will have to spend longer periods of time cooking the healthier food.


 * Terms and Benefits:** The government will provide equipment for the childern while they are playing outside during their recess time. A requirement will be made for all grades to have a physical education class. There will also be a requirement for elementary to have two recess during the day and middle school children to have one recess. All the schools will have their lunches tested by the health department, and if the school qualfies, they will have their lunches changed so they are healthier. The schools that qualify, will have a new lunch menu. The new lunch menu will be like the one the children in Europe have. The menus will have an assigned lunch for the day, but the students will be able to have some choice in what they would like to eat. The lunch menu will also provide a healthy suggestion for the children to eat for dinner. the childern's parents will also recieve a copy of the menu, so the they know what the dinner suggestion for the children is, and what their children are eating for lunch. We plan for it to encourage the parents to make better deccisions for the whole family. All schools will have their lunch periods become longer, so the childern have more time to eat and are not rushing.When you rush to eat you cant tell when your full. So you tend to over eat.


 * Fiscal Impact:​** The Fiscal impact for this bill is 5,045,000. Two million dollars will pay for healthy school lunch food and menus to suggest healthy dinner choices for kids around the country. Two million dollars will also pay for the playground equipment will also be provided by the government so children will be kept active during recess and gym time. We will need to pay for marketing such as bill boards, celebrity activists, public service announcements and cartoons characters as nutrition experts. The pay for marketing will be 1,000,000 dollars. The transportation and all food and toys being shipped around the country is 5,000 dollars.

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