Bill Text: TX SB1068 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to physical fitness assessment of public school students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-06 - Referred to Education [SB1068 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1068-Introduced.html
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By: Hall | S.B. No. 1068 |
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relating to physical fitness assessment of public school students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. 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); | ||
(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 | ||
e-cigarettes, as defined by Section 38.006, and 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 if assessment was requested | ||
under Section 38.101. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 38.101, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.101. REQUEST FOR ASSESSMENT [ |
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request of the student's parent or a person standing in parental | ||
relation to the student [ |
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a school district annually shall assess the physical fitness of a | ||
student [ |
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that satisfies the curriculum requirements for physical education | ||
under Section 28.002(a)(2)(C). | ||
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SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
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, 2017. |