A. In order to combat the increasing rate of childhood obesity in the state, the State Department of Health shall create the Quality Afterschool Opportunities Initiative to Reduce Childhood Obesity and Improve Academic Performance. This initiative shall establish and maintain a program to award grants, should funds become available, to comprehensive, community-based afterschool programs that include evidence-based obesity reduction components.
B. The Department shall, at a minimum:
1. Develop an application process;
2. Determine minimum eligibility requirements for applicants;
3. Develop procedures and criteria for awarding grants; and
4. Determine the minimum and maximum amounts to be awarded.
C. The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules as necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
Added by Laws 2008, c. 133, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.