82R10729 EAH-D | ||
By: Bonnen | H.B. No. 3007 |
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relating to eliminating the requirement that a school district | ||
assess the physical fitness of students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 2. 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); and | ||
(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[ |
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SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
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, 2011. |