Bill Text: TX HB3770 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to unstructured activity requirements for public elementary school students.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB3770 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3770-Introduced.html
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| By: Burkett | H.B. No. 3770 | |
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| relating to unstructured activity requirements for public | ||
| elementary school students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (s) to read as follows: | ||
| (s) In addition to the daily physical activity requirement | ||
| prescribed by Subsection (l), a school district shall require a | ||
| student enrolled in elementary school to participate in | ||
| unstructured and undirected play for at least 20 minutes each | ||
| school day throughout the school year. The period for play required | ||
| by this subsection may not be used to grant a reward or impose a | ||
| punishment. In implementing this subsection, the district shall | ||
| consider the recommendations provided under Section 28.004(l) by | ||
| the local school health advisory council. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
