Bill Text: TX HB3984 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to policies on the recess period in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB3984 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3984-Introduced.html
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| By: Allen | H.B. No. 3984 | |
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| relating to policies on the recess period in public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 28.0047 and 28.0048 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 28.0047. MODEL RECESS POLICIES. The Department of | ||
| State Health Services School Health Advisory Committee established | ||
| under Section 1001.0711, Health and Safety Code, shall develop | ||
| model policies for the recess period during the school day that | ||
| encourage constructive, age-appropriate outdoor playtime. The | ||
| model policies must include guidelines for outdoor equipment and | ||
| facilities on public school campuses that maximize the | ||
| effectiveness of outdoor physical activity. | ||
| Sec. 28.0048. RECESS POLICY. (a) The board of trustees of | ||
| each school district shall: | ||
| (1) after reviewing the model recess policies | ||
| developed under Section 28.0047 and the policy recommendations of | ||
| the local school health advisory council provided under Section | ||
| 28.004(l), adopt a recess policy based on those model policies and | ||
| recommendations; and | ||
| (2) review and, if necessary, revise the recess policy | ||
| at least every five years. | ||
| (b) The recess policy must specify: | ||
| (1) the required number of minutes of weekly | ||
| unstructured playtime; and | ||
| (2) whether a student's recess time may be withheld as | ||
| a form of student discipline. | ||
| (c) Each school district campus subject to the district | ||
| recess policy adopted under Subsection (a) shall implement the | ||
| recess policy. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than January 1, 2024, the | ||
| Department of State Health Services School Health Advisory | ||
| Committee shall develop model recess policies as required by | ||
| Section 28.0047, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| (b) Not later than May 1, 2024, the board of trustees of each | ||
| school district shall adopt a recess policy as required by Section | ||
| 28.0048, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| (c) Not later than the beginning of the 2024-2025 school | ||
| year, each school district campus subject to a school district | ||
| recess policy adopted under Section 28.0048, Education Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, shall implement the adopted policy. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
