82R10672 CAE-D
By: Veasey H.B. No. 3075
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the health and physical education program guidelines
that a school district must use in the district's health or physical
education curriculum.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.002(l-2), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(l-2) To encourage school districts to promote physical
activity for children through classroom curricula for health and
physical education, the agency, in consultation with the Department
of State Health Services, shall designate nationally recognized
health and physical education program guidelines that a school
district shall [may] use in the health curriculum under Subsection
(a)(2)(B) or the physical education curriculum under Subsection
(a)(2)(C).
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012
school year.
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, 2011.