Bill Text: TX HB277 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to physical activity requirements for students in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-11 - Referred to Public Education [HB277 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB277-Introduced.html
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| By: Alvarado | H.B. No. 277 | |
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| relating to physical activity requirements for students in public | ||
| schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 28.002(l), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (l) A school district shall require a student enrolled in | ||
| full-day prekindergarten, in kindergarten, or in a grade level | ||
| below grade six to participate in moderate or vigorous daily | ||
| physical activity for at least 30 minutes throughout the school | ||
| year as part of the district's physical education curriculum or | ||
| through structured activity during a school campus's daily | ||
| recess. To the extent practicable, a school district shall require | ||
| a student enrolled in prekindergarten on less than a full-day basis | ||
| to participate in the same type and amount of physical activity as a | ||
| student enrolled in full-day prekindergarten. A school district | ||
| shall require a student [ |
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| six, seven, or [ |
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| daily physical activity for at least 30 minutes throughout the | ||
| school year [ |
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| as part of the district's physical education curriculum. If a | ||
| school district determines, for any particular grade level below | ||
| grade six, that requiring moderate or vigorous daily physical | ||
| activity is impractical due to scheduling concerns or other | ||
| factors, the district may as an alternative require a student in | ||
| that grade level to participate in moderate or vigorous physical | ||
| activity for at least 135 minutes during each school | ||
| week. Additionally, a school district may as an alternative | ||
| require a student enrolled in a grade level for which the district | ||
| uses block scheduling to participate in moderate or vigorous | ||
| physical activity for at least 225 minutes during each period of two | ||
| school weeks. A school district must provide for an exemption for: | ||
| (1) any student who is unable to participate in the | ||
| required physical activity because of illness or disability; and | ||
| (2) a middle school or junior high school student who | ||
| participates in an extracurricular activity with a moderate or | ||
| vigorous physical activity component that is considered a | ||
| structured activity under rules adopted by the commissioner. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
