TITLE: Relating to the health and physical education program guidelines that a school district must use in the district's health or physical education curriculum.

SUMMARY: Relating to the health and physical education program guidelines that a school district must use in the district's health or physical education curriculum.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the health and physical education program guidelines that a school district must use in the district's health or physical education curriculum. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 28.002(l-2), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (l-2) To encourage school districts to promote physical activity for children through classroom curricula for health and physical education, the agency, in consultation with the Department of State Health Services, shall designate nationally recognized health and physical education program guidelines that a school district shall [may] use in the health curriculum under Subsection (a)(2)(B) or the physical education curriculum under Subsection (a)(2)(C). SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 school year. SECTION 3. 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.