The Legislature finds and declares that the rise in obesity and related weight problems accompanied by the resulting incidence of chronic disease has created a health care crisis that burdens the health care infrastructure of the state. The Legislature also finds that the State of West Virginia must take an informed, sensitive approach to communicate […]
There is hereby created the Office of Healthy Lifestyles within the Department of Health and Human Resources. The management of this office shall be provided in the manner determined by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources to be in the best interest of the state and its citizens.
The Office of Healthy Lifestyles shall: (1) Establish a Healthy Lifestyle Coalition to assure consistency of the public health and private sector approach to dealing with programs that address the problems that affect overweight and obese individuals; to provide a forum for discussing the issues that affect healthy lifestyles and to identify best practices that […]
(a) The West Virginia Healthy Lifestyles Program will develop a statewide voluntary private sector partnership program to work with businesses throughout the state that encourage and promote healthy lifestyles among their employees and communities. (b) Beginning July 1, 2005, those businesses voluntarily choosing to participate in the Healthy Lifestyles Program shall submit their own detailed […]
There is hereby created in the state Treasury a separate special revenue account, which shall be an interest bearing account, to be known as the "Healthy Lifestyles Fund". The special revenue account shall consist of all appropriations made by the Legislature, income from the investment of moneys held in the special revenue account and all […]
