Bill Text: TX HB1227 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to eliminating the requirement that a school district assess the physical fitness of students.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1227 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1227-Comm_Sub.html
  84R7900 KKA-D
 
  By: Anderson of Dallas, King of Taylor, H.B. No. 1227
      Bonnen of Brazoria, Huberty, Lucio III,
 
      et al.
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to eliminating the requirement that a school district
  assess the physical fitness of students.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 2.  Section 28.004(k), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (k)  A school district shall publish in the student handbook
  and post on the district's Internet website, if the district has an
  Internet website:
               (1)  a statement of the policies adopted to ensure that
  elementary school, middle school, and junior high school students
  engage in at least the amount and level of physical activity
  required by Section 28.002(l); and
               (2)  a statement of:
                     (A)  the number of times during the preceding year
  the district's school health advisory council has met;
                     (B)  whether the district has adopted and enforces
  policies to ensure that district campuses comply with agency
  vending machine and food service guidelines for restricting student
  access to vending machines; and
                     (C)  whether the district has adopted and enforces
  policies and procedures that prescribe penalties for the use of
  tobacco products by students and others on school campuses or at
  school-sponsored or school-related activities[; and
               [(3)     a statement providing notice to parents that they
  can request in writing their child's physical fitness assessment
  results at the end of the school year].
         SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
  school year.
         SECTION 4.  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, 2015.
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