Strike everything after the enacting clause and substitute the following in lieu thereof:

"Section 1. Section 10-220f of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2005):

(a) Each local and regional board of education may establish a school district safety committee to increase staff and student awareness of safety [and health] issues and to review the adequacy of emergency response procedures at each school. Parents and high school students shall be included in the membership of such committees.

(b) (1) Each local and regional board of education shall establish a School Wellness Committee to monitor and implement nutrition and physical activity policies required pursuant to the provisions of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, P.L. 108-265. Each such committee shall make recommendations to its board of education regarding school wellness issues, including, but not limited to, ordering Connecticut grown foods for inclusion in school meals, conducting school fundraisers with either healthy food or nonfood items, establishing a nutrition education curriculum and promoting physical education and exercise. Members of the committee may include, but need not be limited to, a school administrator, a physical education teacher, a teacher who does not teach physical education, a school nurse, a local pediatrician, the food service director for the school district, three parents of children enrolled in a school in the school district, a middle school student, a member of the local or regional board of education and a high school student.

(2) Each School Wellness Committee shall study the costs and benefits of requiring, for children in full day kindergarten and grades one to five, inclusive, a minimum period of twenty minutes per full school day where there is an opportunity for the student to engage in physical exercise, in addition to any physical education requirements. Based on its findings, the committee shall report, not later than July 1, 2006, to the local or regional board of education a recommendation, if any, for such requirement of a minimum period of exercise.

(3) Each School Wellness Committee shall study the costs and benefits of limiting beverages available to students at school to: (A) Water, (B) milk, including, but not limited to, chocolate milk, soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or nondairy milk, (C) one hundred per cent fruit juice, and (D) fruit-based drinks that are composed of no less than fifty per cent fruit juice and have no added natural or artificial sweeteners. Based on its findings, the committee shall report, not later than July 1, 2006, to the local or regional board of education a recommendation, if any, for such requirement of a limitation on beverages available to students at schools. If a local or regional board of education adopts any such recommendation, such board may permit at high schools beginning one-half hour after the end of the regular school day, the sale to students of electrolyte replacement beverages containing no more than forty-two grams of added sweetener per twenty ounce serving, and may permit the sale to students of other beverages, provided (i) such sale is in connection with a school sponsored event occurring after the end of the regular school day or on the weekend, (ii) such sale is at the location of such event, and (iii) such beverages are not sold from a vending machine or school store.

Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2005) (a) Not later than January 1, 2006, and January first of each year thereafter, the Department of Education shall publish a list of recommended foods, other than beverages and foods served as part of the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, that may be offered as the only foods on school premises for sale to students, from any source, including, but not limited to, school stores, vending machines, school cafeterias and school sponsored and nonschool sponsored fundraising activities.

(b) Each School Wellness Committee established pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-220f of the general statutes, as amended by this act, shall study the costs and benefits of limiting foods available to students at school to foods served as part of the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program and foods on the list of recommended foods developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Based on its findings, the committee shall report, not later than July 1, 2006, to the local or regional board of education a recommendation, if any, for such requirement of a limitation on foods available to students at schools. If a local or regional board of education adopts any such recommendation, such board may permit at schools, the sale to students of foods that are not listed as recommended foods pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, provided (1) such sale is in connection with a school sponsored event occurring after the end of the regular school day or on the weekend, (2) such sale is at the location of such event, and (3) such foods are not sold from a vending machine or school store. "