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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. CON. RES. 20
Establishing the Congressional Fitness Challenge, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH24, 2025
Mr. H
AMADEHof Arizona submitted the following concurrent resolution;
which was referred to the Committee on House Administration
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Establishing the Congressional Fitness Challenge, and for
other purposes.
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 1
concurring), 2
SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL FITNESS CHALLENGE. 3
There is established a national recognition program, 4
to be known as the Congressional Fitness Challenge (in 5
this concurrent resolution referred to as the ‘‘Challenge’’), 6
to promote physical fitness and personal achievement 7
among eligible participants through voluntary, perform-8
ance-based fitness tests. 9
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SEC. 2. TESTS. 1
The Challenge shall be comprised of the following 2
tests to be administered to eligible participants: 3
(1) 1-mile run or walk, which shall be assessed 4
based on the time taken to run or walk 1 mile. 5
(2) Pull-ups or flexed arm hang, which shall be 6
assessed based on the maximum number of contin-7
uous pull-ups or flexed arm hangs completed with 8
proper form. 9
(3) Curl-ups or sit-ups, which shall be assessed 10
based on the number of curl-ups or sit-ups com-11
pleted in 60 seconds. 12
(4) Shuttle run, which shall be assessed based 13
on the time taken to run 30 feet back and forth be-14
tween 2 parallel lines, picking up a block of wood or 15
similar object twice at 1 such line, for a total of 120 16
feet. 17
(5) Sit-and-reach, which shall be assessed based 18
on the maximum distance reached. 19
SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATION OF CHALLENGE. 20
(a) C
HALLENGESPONSORS.—The following entities 21
may sponsor the Challenge: 22
(1) A public or private school that provides edu-23
cation in any grade from kindergarten through 24
grade 12. 25
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(2) A Member of the House of Representatives 1
or Senator who organizes a community-based event. 2
(3) An independent entity that provides testing 3
for an eligible participant that attends a home 4
school. 5
(b) T
ESTADMINISTRATORS.—The tests under sec-6
tion 2 shall be administered by a certified fitness profes-7
sional. 8
SEC. 4. BENCHMARKS. 9
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The covered committees shall con-10
sult with fitness organizations or certified fitness profes-11
sionals to finalize and publish benchmarks that set a per-12
formance standard for each test under section 2 based on 13
age and gender. In finalizing such benchmarks, such com-14
mittees shall take into account the historical standards 15
used in the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. 16
(b) A
DAPTIVESTANDARDS.—Such benchmarks shall 17
include adaptive standards for eligible participants with 18
disabilities. 19
SEC. 5. DATA COLLECTION. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.—An entity sponsoring the Chal-21
lenge under section 3(a) shall submit to the covered com-22
mittees the data of all eligible participants who participate 23
in the Challenge sponsored by such entity. 24
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(b) DATAAGGREGATION.—The covered committees 1
shall aggregate such data based on the gender and age 2
group of such participants across the United States for 3
each 1-year period. 4
SEC. 6. RECOGNITION. 5
(a) I
NGENERAL.—An eligible participant who per-6
forms at or above the benchmarks under section 4 in the 7
gender and age group of such participant for each test 8
under section 2 may receive a certificate that is signed 9
by— 10
(1) the Speaker of the House of Representa-11
tives; 12
(2) the President pro tempore of the Senate; 13
(3) the Member of the House of Representa-14
tives who represents the congressional district in 15
which such participant resides; and 16
(4) the Senator of the State in which such par-17
ticipant resides. 18
(b) R
ECOGNITIONLEVELS.—For an eligible partici-19
pant who performs at or above the following percentiles 20
in the gender and age group of such participant for each 21
test under section 2, a certificate under subsection (a) 22
shall indicate the lowest recognition level achieved on any 23
such test as follows: 24
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(1) Gold level: Top 85th percentile of eligible 1
participants who participated in the Challenge. 2
(2) Silver level: Top 75th percentile of eligible 3
participants who participated in the Challenge. 4
(3) Bronze level: Top 50th percentile of eligible 5
participants who participated in the Challenge. 6
SEC. 7. ADMINISTRATION AND OVERSIGHT. 7
(a) R
EGULATIONS AND GUIDANCE.—The covered 8
committees shall jointly— 9
(1) prescribe regulations to oversee the Chal-10
lenge, including— 11
(A) testing protocols; 12
(B) mechanisms to report any information 13
needed for recognition under section 6 to the 14
Member of the House of Representatives who 15
represents the congressional district in which an 16
eligible participant resides and the Senator of 17
the State in which such participant resides; 18
(C) regulations to protect the privacy of el-19
igible participants who participate in the Chal-20
lenge and address the liability risks of sponsors 21
under section 3(a); and 22
(D) uniform standards for submitting data 23
to the covered committees under section 5; and 24
(2) issue guidance on the use of— 25
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(A) a Members’ Representational Allow-1
ance by a Member of the House of Representa-2
tives under subsection (b); and 3
(B) a Senators’ Official Personnel and Of-4
fice Expense Account by a Senator under sub-5
section (b). 6
(b) F
UNDINGSOURCES.— 7
(1) I
N GENERAL.— 8
(A) M
EMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL AL -9
LOWANCE.—A Member of the House of Rep-10
resentatives may use amounts provided under 11
the Members’ Representational Allowance of 12
such Member under section 101 of the House 13
of Representatives Administrative Reform Tech-14
nical Corrections Act (2 U.S.C. 5341) to carry 15
out activities related to the Challenge. 16
(B) S
ENATORS’ OFFICIAL PERSONNEL AND 17
OFFICE EXPENSE ACCOUNT .—A Senator may 18
use amounts provided under the Senators’ Offi-19
cial Personnel and Office Expense Account of 20
such Senator under the first section of Public 21
Law 100–137 (2 U.S.C. 6313) to carry out ac-22
tivities related to the Challenge. 23
(2) A
LTERNATIVE FUNDING .—Not later than 1 24
year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 25
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Subcommittees on the Legislative Branch of the 1
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-2
resentatives and the Senate shall publish a report on 3
the feasibility and desirability of using other funds 4
of the House of Representatives and Senate in cov-5
ering expenses incurred in carrying out the Chal-6
lenge. 7
SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS. 8
In this concurrent resolution: 9
(1) C
ERTIFIED FITNESS PROFESSIONAL .—The 10
term ‘‘certified fitness professional’’ means a fitness 11
professional with a relevant certification, as deter-12
mined by a sponsor under section 3(a), such as— 13
(A) a physical education teacher at a pub-14
lic or private school that provides education in 15
a grade from kindergarten through grade 12, 16
but only with respect to eligible participants 17
who are in an age group for which such teacher 18
is qualified to administer the tests under sec-19
tion 2; or 20
(B) a physical trainer with a certification 21
from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, 22
the American Council on Exercise, or a similar 23
entity. 24
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(2) COVERED COMMITTEES .—The term ‘‘cov-1
ered committees’’ means the Committee on House 2
Administration of the House of Representatives and 3
the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 4
Senate. 5
(3) E
LIGIBLE PARTICIPANT.—The term ‘‘eligi-6
ble participant’’ means a student, including a stu-7
dent attending a public, private, or home school, 8
aged 6 through 17. 9
(4) M
EMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA -10
TIVES.—The term ‘‘Member of the House of Rep-11
resentatives’’ means a Representative in, or a Dele-12
gate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. 13
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