Bill Text: TX SB65 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a program to recognize public schools with successful student health and fitness programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-17 - No action taken in committee [SB65 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB65-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a program to recognize public schools with successful student health and fitness programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-17 - No action taken in committee [SB65 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB65-Introduced.html
83R1194 CAS-D | ||
By: Nelson | S.B. No. 65 |
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relating to a program to recognize public schools with successful | ||
student health and fitness programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.027 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.027. HEALTHY SCHOOLS RECOGNITION PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
commissioner shall establish a healthy schools recognition program | ||
under which schools are recognized for successfully implementing | ||
programs that encourage student health and fitness. | ||
(b) A school may apply to the commissioner for recognition | ||
as a gold, silver, or bronze healthy school. The commissioner shall | ||
determine whether a school qualifies for recognition and the level | ||
for which the school qualifies based on: | ||
(1) improvement in the results of the physical fitness | ||
assessment instrument administered under Subchapter C; | ||
(2) implementation of a coordinated health program | ||
under Section 38.014, if the school applying for recognition is an | ||
elementary school, middle school, or junior high school; | ||
(3) the involvement of the local school health | ||
advisory council established under Section 28.004; | ||
(4) compliance with student minimum physical activity | ||
requirements under Section 28.002(l); | ||
(5) recent recognition, by a public or private entity | ||
approved for the purpose by the commissioner, for successfully | ||
implementing a program that encourages student health or fitness; | ||
and | ||
(6) any other criteria adopted by the commissioner. | ||
(c) The commissioner may establish partnerships with | ||
private and nonprofit entities to provide monetary and in-kind | ||
rewards to schools that receive recognition under the program as a | ||
healthy school. | ||
(d) The commissioner may solicit and accept a gift, grant, | ||
or donation from any source for the development or implementation | ||
of the program. Only a gift, grant, or donation may be used to fund | ||
development or implementation of the program. | ||
(e) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
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. |