By: Deuell S.B. No. 684
(Phillips)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a physical assessment of students by a public school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (k), Section 28.004, 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
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 any [the] school year in which their child is
assessed under Subchapter C, Chapter 38.
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 38.101, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school district
[annually] shall assess the physical fitness of the following
students [enrolled in grade three or higher] in a course that
satisfies the curriculum requirements for physical education under
Section 28.002(a)(2)(C):
(1) students enrolled in grades three and five;
(2) students enrolled in grade six, seven, or eight,
with the grade level assessed to be determined by the district; and
(3) students enrolled in grade 9, 10, 11, or 12, with
the grade level assessed to be determined by the district.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
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, 2013.