Bill Text: TX SB355 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 355 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the adoption and implementation of a recess policy by public school districts.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-27 - Left pending in committee [SB355 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB355-Introduced.html

	85R4936 SRS-D

	By: Watson	S.B. No. 355



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the adoption and implementation of a recess policy by
	public school districts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 28.0042 to read as follows:
	Sec. 28.0042. RECESS POLICY. (a) The board of trustees of
	each school district shall:
	(1) after reviewing the policy recommendations of the
	local school health advisory council provided under Section
	28.004(l), adopt a recess policy; 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 May 1, 2018, the board of
	trustees of each school district shall adopt a recess policy as
	required by Section 28.0042, Education Code, as added by this Act.
	(b) Not later than the beginning of the 2018-2019 school
	year, each school district campus subject to a school district
	recess policy adopted under Section 28.0042, 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, 2017.