1.__Resource expert.__Serve as a resource expert in physical education, physical fitness and healthful physical activity program areas for local, regional, state and national school physical education and related policy-making groups;

2.__Information. Monitor, interpret, synthesize and disseminate relevant information related to physical education, physical fitness and healthful physical activity trends, practice, related policy changes, legal issues in program implementation and professional development;

3.__Staff development.__Foster and promote professional development for physical education teachers and other school personnel by planning and providing orientation, educational offerings and networking with universities and other providers of continuing education to meet identified needs; and

4.__Standards.__Gather and analyze data relevant to the physical education, physical fitness and healthful physical activity programs and monitor standards to promote physical education excellence and optimal physical fitness of schoolchildren.

Sec. 4. 20-A MRSA §13803 is enacted to read:

§13803.__Lunch periods

After__December 31, 2005, upon expiration of a collective bargaining agreement for a school administrative unit that includes teachers, any new collective bargaining agreement for that unit must include a provision allowing teachers and students no less than 20 minutes to eat lunch each school day.

Sec. 5. 22 MRSA c. 271, sub-c. 5 is enacted to read:

SUBCHAPTER 5

NUTRITIONAL STANDARDS FOR FOODS

AND BEVERAGES SOLD IN SCHOOLS

§1696-J.__Nutritional standards program

The department shall create a nutritional standards program within the Bureau of Health to establish nutritional standards for healthy foods and beverages that may be sold in schools.