By: Hinojosa, Lucio III, Lozano, Thierry, H.B. No. 128
Phelan, et al.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to school district notification to a parent or guardian of
physical fitness assessment results of the parent's or guardian's
child.
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 the
school district will provide a parent or guardian with a copy of the
results of the [they can request in writing their child's] physical
fitness assessment of the parent's or guardian's child [results] at
the end of the school year.
SECTION 2. Section 38.103, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) Not later than the last day of the school year, a
school district shall provide a parent or guardian with a copy of
the results of the physical fitness assessment of the parent's or
guardian's child. The results provided to a parent or guardian
under this subsection must be clear, precise, and easy to
understand.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
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, 2019.