HB47

__**HB47**__

__**Title:**__ Stop the Abuse & the Food Overuse


 * __Sponsors:__** Samantha Franco & Rachel Willis

Samantha Franco - Texas, Moderate, Republican Rachel Willis - North Carolina, Moderate, Republican


 * __Purpose:__** The purpose of our bill is to stop parents from harming their children by continually letting them eat unhealthy foods. Many children have become obese and ill from over eating too many fats and sugars. This issue usually starts at home when parents don’t monitor their children’s food intake. We would like to prevent this by promoting exercise and healthy foods among the country. If this happens the children should be given a strict warning. And then if the issue continues the children should be removed from their home to get the proper nourishment. This is all to stop the rate of obesity in our country from growing anymore.

This bill pertains to an individual or individuals who:
 * __Eligibility:__**
 * 1) Are under the age of 18
 * 2) Live with parents or legal guardians still
 * 3) Are over the healthy weight range for their age and height
 * 4) Abuse the appropriate calorie intake per day because of parents allowance

__**Terms and Benefits:**__ Many children across the country are suffering from obesity due to unhealthy eating and exercising life styles. This issue is usually caused from irresponsible parents not monitoring their children’s eating and exercising habits. Parents could prevent this issue, but many are still feeding their children unhealthy amounts of unhealthy foods. To prevent the problem from getting worse, we are proposing this bill to remove children from their homes to revive healthy ways of life. Only Americans under the age of 18 years old that are over the weight they should be for their height and age will be affected by this bill. This bill would benefit the obese children working to towards a healthier weight. This will penalize irresponsible parents who have put their overweight children at risk for diseases or other serious health issues for a short time. This bill will be enforced by local health providers, pediatricians, school officials, and social workers. This bill will be in effect for as long as needed to reduce the obesity percentage in children and to maintain a healthy life style for children in America.
 * Before this bill is going into effect we will be informing all officials that have the right to remove children from their homes for logical reasons or necessary purposes. Also, parents will be informed and given strict warnings to them that their children could possibly be removed from the home if the abuse continues.


 * Once the bill goes into effect, social workers will be studying the eating and exercise habits of obese children. If a child is reported to be obese, the government officials will provide evidence as to why they are taking the child. Once the child is removed they will be brought to a special facility and care center designed to specifically help them lose weight and gain confidence. Here the children will be nurtured properly and given a special room to sleep in with the proper necessities to take care of themselves. Children can stay at this facility for a minimum of six months before returning to their home after reaching a healthy weight. During the children’s stay at the facility, their parents will be permitted to visit them a few times a week brining valuables, but they are not allowed to bring food, candy, or beverages for their children.


 * After a child is returned to their home, after either staying for the maximum amount of time or reaching a healthy weight limit, the parent is required to provide healthier meals and promote further exercise throughout the week. Every two weeks, a member from the facility will check in on the family and make sure the child has not gained any unnecessary weight. After two months of being home, if the child hasn’t maintained a healthy weight then they will be taken to the facility once again. The child is permitted three separate 6 month to two years long visits to the facility before social services will remove them permanently from the house putting them into the foster care program.


 * __Fiscal Impact:__**

This bill would cost an estimated $550,635,919. The //Alliance for a Healthier Generation will// be responsible for carrying out the provisions for the bill. The cost comes from equipment, marketing, labor, education, legal issues, and other things just as buildings.

The equipment required for this bill would be exercise equipment, computers, and heart rate monitors. The exercise equipment is needed to help the children reach a healthy weight. Each machine cost about $500. Each building would need computers and would be used for keeping logs of the children in the facility. A computer would cost $300. Also, heart rate monitors would be needed to watch the heart rate of the kids. A heart rate monitor cost about $1,500.

There would also be a lot of marketing involved in the bill. One thing that would be required would be a Television Commercial that is played on all national stations. This commercial would inform people about what happens when this bill goes into effect. A commercial that is about 30 seconds would cost $105,000. Also a page in the newspaper could be used. One page containing all of the information on the bill would cost about $110,000.

There is a lot of labor involved in the bill. One job required is personal trainers. There would be about twenty personal trainers per building and would help the children at the facility reach their healthy weight. The annual salary of a personal trainer is $52,935. Social Workers will also be needed to work with the families and the kids. Each facility will have about fifteen social workers, with a yearly salary of about $41,005. Also there will have to be about ten doctors hired per building to check on the children’s medical condition. The yearly salary of the average doctor is $200,000. Lastly about five therapists per building will be required. The therapists will work with the children that are at the facility and will also work with some of the families. The yearly salary of a therapist is around $74,530.

Education will also be required for this bill. Many of the people that will be working at the facility must be educated in health and physical assets. A class in this subject costs around $1,000 per person.

There might also be legal problems involving removing children from their home to the facilities. Because of this, lawyers will need to be hired to defend the bill. The annual salary of a lawyer is around $84,750.

The last category that would be required of the bill in the bill would be the buildings. There will be 50 facilities in each state that the children will be taken to. Each building will cost about 500,000 to build.