Findings and Purpose

Sec. 664.002. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. Effective state administration is materially enhanced by programs designed to encourage and create a condition of health fitness in state administrators and employees and public money spent for these programs serves important public purposes, including: (1) an understanding and diminution of the risk factors associated with society's most debilitating diseases; (2) the development of greater work productivity and capacity; (3) a reduction in absenteeism; (4) a reduction of health insurance costs; and (5) an increase in the general level of fitness. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.