86R2255 CAE-D
 
  By: Hinojosa H.B. No. 128
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to school district notification to a parent of physical
  fitness assessment results of the parent'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 with a copy of the results of
  the [they can request in writing their child's] physical fitness
  assessment of the parent'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 with a copy of the results of
  the physical fitness assessment of the parent's child.
         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.