Bill Text: CA AB200 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Physical education: Health and Fitness Award Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2011-10-04 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB200 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB200-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 200	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        JANUARY 27, 2011

   An act to add Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 9010) to Part 6
of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, relating to physical
education.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 200, as introduced, Hayashi. Physical education: award program.

   Existing law requires school districts to include physical
education in the course of study for pupils in grades 1 to 12,
inclusive. Existing law requires the governing board of a school
district maintaining any of grades 5, 7, and 9 to administer the
physical performance test designated by the State Board of Education
to each pupil in those grades during the month of February, March,
April, or May.
   This bill would require the State Board of Education to establish
the Physical Education Award Program to recognize schools that
conduct their physical education courses pursuant to the model
content standards and demonstrate that increasing numbers of pupils
enrolled in those schools meet minimum standards on the physical
performance test designated by the state board. The Superintendent of
Public Instruction would be required to use currently collected data
and specified eligibility criteria to identify one school from each
legislative district in the state to receive recognition, which may
include, but would not be limited to, classification as a
distinguished school, being listed on a published public school honor
roll, and public commendations by the Governor and the Legislature.
The Legislature would be required, to the extent that funds are
available, to recognize the schools identified by the Superintendent.
The bill would require that private funds be used to pay for all of
the costs of implementing the program, including the administrative
costs of the State Department of Education, and would authorize the
Superintendent to receive donations of private funds for purposes of
implementing the program. The bill would prohibit the state board
from establishing the program unless and until the Department of
Finance certifies to the Superintendent that private donations
received by the state are sufficient to implement the program.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 9010) is added to
Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 11.  PHYSICAL EDUCATION AWARD PROGRAM


   9010.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
Excellence in Physical Education Act of 2011.
   9011.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
   (a) The department has reported that a majority of this state's
children are not physically fit.
   (b) Obesity in California's schools is reaching epidemic
proportions.
   (c) The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have
identified physical education as an effective intervention in the
fight against childhood obesity.
   (d) Providing ongoing incentives to California's schools in order
to increase the physical fitness of pupils is a necessary systemic
solution to combating obesity and improving the overall education
performance of pupils.
   9012.  (a) The state board shall establish the Physical Education
Award Program to recognize schools that conduct their physical
education courses pursuant to the model content standards adopted
pursuant to Section 60605.2 and demonstrate that increasing numbers
of pupils enrolled in those schools meet minimum standards on the
physical performance test designated by the state board pursuant to
Section 60800.
   (b) The Superintendent shall use currently collected data and the
criteria described in subdivision (c) to identify one school from
each legislative district in the state to receive recognition, which
may include, but is not limited to, classification as a distinguished
school, being listed on a published public school honor roll, and
public commendations by the Governor and the Legislature. The
Legislature, to the extent that funds are available, shall recognize
the schools identified by the Superintendent pursuant to this
subdivision.
   (c) The school in each legislative district with the highest
percentage of pupils who meet the minimum standards on the physical
performance test described in subdivision (a) is eligible to receive
recognition pursuant to subdivision (b). The Superintendent may
develop additional criteria for recognition as he or she deems
appropriate.
   (d) Private funds shall be used to pay for all of the costs of
implementing the program, including the administrative costs of the
department. The Superintendent may receive donations of private funds
for purposes of implementing the program.
   (e) The state board shall not establish the program described in
this section unless and until the Department of Finance certifies to
the Superintendent that private donations received by the state are
sufficient to implement the program.