Connecticut 2015 2015 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00779 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/22/2015

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 779
January Session, 2015  LCO No. 2287
 *02287*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. MARKLEY, 16th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 779 

January Session, 2015

LCO No. 2287

*02287*

Referred to Committee on EDUCATION 

Introduced by:

SEN. MARKLEY, 16th Dist.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A RED RIBBON PASS PROGRAM.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to establish a Red Ribbon PASS program. Such program shall (1) be administered by the Connecticut Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and the cofounders of the Physical Activity School Score assessment tool, (2) recognize school districts as a highly performing, physically active school system and schools as an improving physically active school, and (3) collect data from the preceding school year's Connecticut Physical Fitness Test from the State Board of Education on or before July first of each school year, beginning with the school year commencing on July 1, 2016.

Statement of Purpose: 

To establish a Red Ribbon PASS program.