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1 1 Section 1. YOUTH SPORTS AND HEALTH INFORMATION PROGRAM.
1 2 1. The Iowa department of public health, in consultation
1 3 with the department of education, shall develop and implement
1 4 a youth sports and health information program entitled "the
1 5 sports eye". The department shall enter a contract with a
1 6 hospital-sponsored entity to provide production and consultive
1 7 services for the program. The program shall be presented in
1 8 an interactive format through use of the Iowa communications
1 9 network and shall include the development and use of an
1 10 internet site to provide for additional interaction. The
1 11 program shall be made available to students, at the discretion
1 12 of an individual elementary or secondary school, at times
1 13 during the school day during which students are not
1 14 participating in formal classroom instruction.
1 15 2. The program provided through the Iowa communications
1 16 network shall utilize the skills of a youthful, sports-
1 17 oriented host to present outstanding Iowa athletes enrolled in
1 18 secondary and postsecondary education institutions. The
1 19 emphasis of the program shall be providing information
1 20 regarding health, including the effects of tobacco and alcohol
1 21 use and substance abuse.
1 22 3. The program shall include an evaluation component to
1 23 allow participating students to complete an attitude survey,
1 24 through the use of the internet site, to provide comments and
1 25 other reactions to the program and to tobacco and alcohol use
1 26 and substance abuse. The survey responses shall be compiled
1 27 by the Iowa department of public health and shall be provided
1 28 to the public via the internet site.
1 29 Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION – TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUND. There
1 30 is appropriated from the tobacco settlement fund created in
1 31 section 12.65, to the Iowa department of public health, for
1 32 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30,
1 33 2001, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
1 34 necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
1 35 For development and implementation of the youth sports and
2 1 health information program entitled "the sports eye" including
2 2 but not limited to presentation of the program via the Iowa
2 3 communications network and for development and support of an
2 4 internet site for the program:
2 5 .................................................. $ 150,000
2 6 EXPLANATION
2 7 This bill requires the Iowa department of public health, in
2 8 consultation with the department of education, to develop and
2 9 implement a youth sports and health information program. The
2 10 department is directed to enter a contract with a hospital-
2 11 sponsored entity to provide production and consultive services
2 12 for the program. The program would utilize the Iowa
2 13 communications network and be made available to students in
2 14 elementary and secondary schools. The emphasis of the program
2 15 would be health and the effects of tobacco and alcohol use and
2 16 substance abuse. The program would also utilize an internet
2 17 site. An evaluative component of the program would allow
2 18 participating students to complete an attitude survey. The
2 19 results of the surveys would be compiled and provided to the
2 20 public via the internet site.
2 21 The bill appropriates $150,000 from the tobacco settlement
2 22 fund to the Iowa department of public health for the fiscal
2 23 year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001, to
2 24 develop and implement the program.
2 25 LSB 5976HH 78
2 26 pf/cf/24
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