4:00 PM

STAFF REPORTS

1 p.m.

Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee; public hearing; room 214; Cross Building

L.D. 718, "An Act To Protect Maine Food Consumers' Right To Know about Genetically Engineered Food and Seed Stock": requires disclosure of genetic engineering at the point of retail sale of food and seed stock and provides that food or seed stock except in those without knowledge of the genetic engineering, animals fed genetically engineered food, a minimum content produced by genetic engineering, restaurants, alcoholic beverages or medical food.

Education and Cultural Affairs Committee; public hearings; Augusta Civic Center

L.D. 1160, "An Act To Reduce Obesity among Schoolchildren": requires students from kindergarten to grade five participate in at 30 minutes of physical activity and prohibits using food as a reward or punishment.

L.D. 1241, "An Act To Protect School Athletes from Head Injuries": requires all students participating in field hockey, lacrosse, snowboarding or skiing as part of an activity of an elementary or secondary school, to wear protective headgear and requires the commissioner of Education to study the injuries that occur and determine measures to avoid injuries and report to the Legislature.

L.D. 1321, "An Act To Promote Healthy School Lighting": requires all public schools to install and maintain lighting that has a color rendering index of 90 or higher.

L.D. 1353, " An Act To Further Reduce Student Hunger": requires a school administrative unit with a public school in which at least 50 percent of students qualified for a free or reduced-price lunch during the preceding school year to operate a federal summer food service program in the area served by that public school during the following summer vacation if that public school operates a summer educational or recreational program and requires that school administrative units that don't operate a summer educational or recreational program collaborate with a service institution to operate summer food service program.

Originally posted here:
State House calendar, April 23, 2013

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