| HB1518 | Paraphrase: | allows schools to exclude suspended or otherwise-disciplined children from daily physical education requirements. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Scott Inman (H), Jim Reynolds (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/22/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB1530 | Paraphrase: | creates the Health Education Act and requires that school districts provide health education to students in either grade six, seven or eight. The measure allows the course to be taught in a separate semester health education course or integrated as part of other courses. It requires the teachers to be certified by the State Department of Education to teach health education, and the bill encourages school districts to work with community-based health organizations for the course. The measure also directs the health education instruction to be provided beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, but if a school does not employ a teacher certified to teach in health education that year, the school may delay implementation until the 2013-2014 school year. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Ann Coody (H), Clark Jolley (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 03/11/2010 | Current Status: | Bill Failed - House | |
| HB1567 | Paraphrase: | requires parents of students enrolled in second and eighth grades to provide schools with a completed physical evaluation. The bill provides an exemption if a parent writes a letter saying the requirement violates a religious or moral principle. The bill also directs the State Department of Health to construct questionnaires and guiding information for physicians about conditions such as asthma and diabetes. It also directs the Department of Health to create a statewide registry of qualified physicians and post it online. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Colby Schwartz (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1634 | Paraphrase: | expands health components analyzed under the Healthy and Fit School Advisory Committee and directs each public school's committee to assess its study body via the federal School Health Index. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Anastasia Pittman (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1699 | Paraphrase: | creates the RIGHTTRACK Act to use the calculation of body mass index as a tool in screening and identifying children who may be at risk for poor nutrition. The bill authorizes local school districts to implement such a program that would provide each student's parent or guardian with a confidential health report that includes the result of the student's BMI for age screening, along with basic educational information explaining the results and calling for the provision of a physical exam for that student under certain scores. The bill creates the RIGHTTRACK Oversight Committee to provide all procedures, information and instructional support necessary to implement these requirements. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Richard Morrissette (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1806 | Paraphrase: | provides an income tax credit equal to 20 percent of eligible fees required for membership in a health or fitness club. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jabar Shumate (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 01/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1811 | Paraphrase: | creates an 11-member Healthy Foods Task Force until Jan. 1, 2011, to study and make recommendations regarding incentives for grocers and farmers markets to locate in low-income communities. It requires the task force to issue a report to the governor and Legislature by Dec. 1, 2010. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jabar Shumate (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2599 | Paraphrase: | creates the RIGHTTRACK Act to require parents or guardians of children enrolled in certain public schools to attend mandatory health and wellness school assemblies and to encourage the calculation of body mass index to screen and identify children who may be at risk for poor nutrition. It requires school districts located in a county with a population greater than 500,000 to provide health and wellness assemblies at each school campus, and it requires parents or guardians of students attending the schools to attend the assemblies on an annual basis. It directs calculation of body mass index to be made available as a tool to identify students who may be at risk for poor nutrition, and it directs such information to be communicated in a confidential health report to the parent or guardian. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Richard Morrissette (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB3015 | Paraphrase: | modifies definitions under the Agricultural Linked Deposit Act by including certified "healthy corner stores" under the definition of "eligible agricultural business." It requires eligible healthy corner stores to be certified by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to market locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables and nutritious foods and for which the sale of beer and tobacco products constitutes less than 10 percent of its gross sales, excluding gasoline and other nongrocery products, and that is located in a geographical area that is underserved by grocery outlets meeting those requirements. It authorizes the department to promulgate necessary rules. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Seneca Scott (H), Thomas Ivester (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2010 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/16/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0322 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to the Healthy and Fit Kids Act. It directs rather than encourages each public school site's Healthy and Fit School Advisory Committee to use the School Health Index developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess its student body beginning Sept. 1, 2009. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), Ann Coody (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/22/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0323 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Act, directing the Oklahoma Department of Health to create a comprehensive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) state plan that outlines sustainable solutions for reducing the burden of COPD in Oklahoma. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Tom Adelson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0399 | Paraphrase: | allows the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to apply, accept and disburse monies from the federal government or any other public or private source to implement the Safe Routes to Schools program. The measure also directs the director of ODOT to appoint a Safe Routes to Schools Advisory Committee. It also creates the Oklahoma Safe Routes to Schools Revolving Fund to consist of monies received for the program. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Cliff Branan (S), T.W. Shannon (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/20/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0425 | Paraphrase: | directs the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to establish the Safe Routes to Schools program to increase the number of children walking and bicycling to school. It allows ODOT to apply, accept and disburse monies from the federal government or any other public or private source to implement the program. The measure also directs the director of ODOT to appoint a Safe Routes to Schools Advisory Committee. It also creates the Oklahoma Safe Routes to Schools Revolving Fund to consist of monies received for the program. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Constance Johnson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1135 | Paraphrase: | creates the Task Force on Dining Information and Nutritional Education and establishes the task force's membership and duties. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Randy Bass (S), Wes Hilliard (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1136 | Paraphrase: | creates the Healthy Choices Tax Credit, which establishes an income tax credit for tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2009, food facilities of up to 20 percent of the expense resulting from disclosure of nutritional information under the Healthy Choice Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Randy Bass (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1473 | Paraphrase: | makes an appropriation to and sets budget limitations for the Department of Health for fiscal year 2011. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 09/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/28/2010 | Current Status: | In Committee - Conference | |
| Committee: | GCCA (J) | |||
| SB1474 | Paraphrase: | sets budget limitations for the Department of Health for fiscal year 2011. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 09/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/28/2010 | Current Status: | In Committee - Conference | |
| Committee: | GCCA (J) | |||
| SB1596 | Paraphrase: | states legislative intent to provide consumers with better access to nutritional information about prepared foods sold at food facilities. It creates the Healthy Choices Act, directing food facilities beginning July 1, 2011, and ending Dec. 31, 2012, to disclose nutritional information, establishing methods for sit-down service facilities and facilities with drive-through areas. It requires every food facility that provides a menu, uses an indoor menu board, uses a display tag or has a drive-through area to disclose calorie content information for standard menu items in a size and typeface that is clear and conspicuous beginning on and after Jan. 1, 2013. The measure states that the act cannot be construed to create or enhance any claim, right of action or civil liability that did not previously exist. It gives enforcement authority to local enforcement agencies. It provides penalties for violations beginning July 1, 2011. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Randy Bass (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |