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Campopiano / 1 - Senator Peterson S.S.

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A BILL
To provide federal funds to any state, based on number of pupils, that mandates high school students to
pass a semester long health class in order to graduate.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
2 America in Congress assembled,
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4 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
5 This act may be cited as the High School Health Act of 2014
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7 SECTION 2: FINDINGS
8 Congress hereby finds and declares that,
9 1) Young people need to be instructed at a young age how to maintain physical fitness, it
10 is estimated that boys only spend about 18 minutes engaged in moderate and vigorous
11 activity and girls spend about 16 minutes.
12 2) Children and adolescents obtain 33%-35% of their calories from fat and 12%-13% from
13 saturated fat (above the recommended levels of 30% and 10%, respectively). Almost
14 one-half of 8th- and 10th-grade students eat three or more snacks a day, and most of these
15 snacks are high in fat, sugar, or sodium.
16 3) Schools can teach students how to resist social pressures. Eating is a socially learned
17 School-based programs can directly address peer pressure that discourages healthy eating
18 and harness the power of peer pressure to reinforce healthy eating habits.
19 4) Among women aged 19 years and younger, more than 4 out of 5 pregnancies were
20 unintended.Large increases in unintended pregnancy rates were found among women with
21 lower education, low income, and cohabiting women.
22 5) Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today,
23 nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese.
24 6) Approximately 17 million students are currently enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in the
25 United States of America. In California, approximately 1,700,000 students are enrolled in
26 grades 9 through 12.
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28 SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
29 A) Any state requiring high school students to pass a semester long health class in order to
30 graduate, shall be provided $50,000 per 1,000 pupils. For example, if California shall
31 mandate that all high schoolers must pass a semester long health class in order to graduate,
32 the state shall be granted 85 million dollars.
33 B) Funding for states requiring students to pass a semester long health class in order to
34 graduate, will come directly from the budget already allotted by Congress for the
35 Department of Defense and United States Armed Forces. The total obtained from the
36 Department of Defense and United States Armed Forces for the High School Health Act of
37 2014 shall be 850 million dollars, taking only 0.17% of 495.6 billion dollars of the
38 Department of Defense and United States Armed Forces total funding.
39 C) Any any state that decides to not follow this law will have no prosecutions. This law
40 shall go into effect January 1, 2015.

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