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. (1) an understanding and diminution of the risk factors associated with society's most debilitating diseases;
2. (2) the development of greater work productivity and capacity;
3. (3) a reduction in absenteeism;
4. (4) a reduction of health insurance costs; and
5. (5) an increase in the general level of fitness.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.