A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS for healthful living COORDINATORS for the public schools.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of eight million six hundred twenty‑five thousand dollars ($8,625,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of five million five hundred seventy thousand dollars ($5,570,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year to provide one full‑time healthful living coordinator in the central office of each local school administrative unit.  The healthful living coordinator shall design, support, implement, manage, and evaluate a district‑wide coordinated school health program that will address childhood obesity prevention and other health related issues. The healthful living coordinator shall work collaboratively with the obesity prevention staff at the local health department.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.