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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 701

2     AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend House Resolution 701 by replacing
3 everything after the title with the following:
 
4     "WHEREAS, Pursuant to House Resolution 147, the Department
5 of Public Health, in conjunction with the State Board of
6 Education, has conducted a sugar consumption study to determine
7 the effect of sugar consumption on the overall health of school
8 children; and
 
9     WHEREAS, The January 2004 study, which reviewed the
10 literature on the relationships between increased sugar
11 consumption in children's diets and health outcomes, found no
12 clear, direct link between cavities and modest school-age
13 consumption of sugared soft drinks; and
 
14     WHEREAS, As a result of such lack of data, the Department
15 of Public Health is currently conducting a statewide survey to
16 collect current cavities data; and
 
17     WHEREAS, The study has found that an inactive lifestyle and
18 sedentary behavior is troubling and has a deleterious effect on
19 childhood obesity and its health-related consequences; and
 
20     WHEREAS, The Department of Public Health's report on sugar
21 consumption stated a suggestion to "create a Nutritional

 

 

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1 Advisory Committee to recommend state-wide school standards
2 for nutrition including formulating a state-wide policy on
3 vending machines in all schools"; therefore, be it
 
4     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
5 NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
6 there is created the Nutrition Advisory Committee, to be made
7 up of 19 members as follows: the President of the Senate or his
8 or her designee, the Minority Leader of the Senate or his or
9 her designee, the Speaker of the House or his or her designee,
10 the Minority Leader of the House or his or her designee, the
11 Director of Public Health or his or her designee, the Secretary
12 of Human Services or his or her designee, and the State
13 Superintendent of Education or his or her designee; and the
14 following: 2 representatives of Illinois Soft Drink
15 Association, 2 representatives of the Illinois Retail
16 Merchants Association, one representative of the Illinois
17 State Dental Society, one licensed dietician representing the
18 Illinois Dietetic Association, one representative of the
19 Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, one
20 representative of the Illinois Coaches Association, one member
21 of the Illinois Association of School Boards, one
22 representative of the Illinois School Food Service
23 Association, one representative of the Illinois Principals
24 Association, and one certified diabetes educator from the
25 American Diabetes Association; and be it further
 
26     RESOLVED, That Committee members shall serve without
27 compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable and
28 necessary expenses from funds appropriated for that purpose,
29 that the Committee shall meet initially at the joint call of
30 the 4 legislative leaders, that the Committee shall select one
31 member as chairperson at its initial meeting and thereafter
32 meet at the call of the chairperson, that the Committee shall

 

 

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1 receive the assistance of staff of the Department of Public
2 Health, and that the Committee shall report its findings and
3 recommendations concerning school standards for nutrition to
4 the General Assembly on or before September 1, 2005; and be it
5 further
 
6     RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
7 delivered to the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader
8 of the Senate, the Director of Public Health, the Secretary of
9 Human Services, the State Superintendent of Education, the
10 Illinois Soft Drink Association, the Illinois Retail Merchants
11 Association, the Illinois State Dental Society, the Illinois
12 Dietetic Association, the Consortium to Lower Obesity in
13 Chicago Children, the Illinois Coaches Association, the
14 Illinois Association of School Boards, the Illinois School Food
15 Service Association, the Illinois Principals Association, and
16 the American Diabetes Association.".