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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2684 

To establish a competitive pilot program that utilizes community, innovation, 

and technology to improve physical fitness education and curriculum 

in elementary schools and secondary schools. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 28, 2011 

Mr. BOSWELL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To establish a competitive pilot program that utilizes community, innovation, and technology to improve physical fitness education and curriculum in elementary schools and 

secondary schools. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as ‘‘P.E. for the 21st Century 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE PHYS2 ICAL FITNESS EDUCATION AND CUR3 RICULUM. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts appropriated 

5 to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall award not fewer 

6 than 10, but not more than 20 grants, on a competitive 

7 basis, to local educational agencies and charter schools to 

8 improve physical fitness education and curriculum in ele9 mentary schools and secondary schools. 

10 (b) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may not award a 

11 grant under this Act to more than 1 local educational 

12 agency or charter school in each State. 

13 (c) DIVERSITY.—To the extent possible, the Sec14 retary shall ensure that grants under this Act are distrib15 uted throughout different regions of the Nation, and that 

16 the recipients of a grant under this Act represent the size, 

17 ethnic, economic, and geographic diversity (including rural 

18 and urban) of local educational agencies and charter 

19 schools throughout the Nation. 

20 (d) APPLICATIONS.— 

21 (1) IN GENERAL.—To receive a grant under 

22 this Act, a local educational agency or charter school 

23 shall submit an application to the Secretary at such 

24 time, in such manner, and containing such informa25 tion as the Secretary may require. 


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1 (2) DEADLINE.—The Secretary shall ensure 

2 that the deadline for submitting applications under 

3 paragraph (1) is not later than 1 year after the date 

4 of the enactment of this Act. 

5 (e) USES OF FUNDS.—Each local educational agency 

6 and each charter school receiving a grant under this Act 

7 shall use such funds to carry out, for 1 school year, a pilot 

8 program that— 

9 (1) makes technology (such as heart rate mon10 itors, body mass testing, and body fat testing) a key 

11 component of testing and assessing the physical fit12 ness and improvement of each student enrolled in el13 ementary schools and secondary schools in the agen14 cy or the charter school; 

15 (2) creates partnerships between the agency or 

16 charter school and local business (such as gyms, gro17 ceries, and farmer’s markets) to ensure community 

18 support for the program, and local financial and 

19 professional assistance; and 

20 (3) incorporates physical fitness education (in 

21 addition to and outside of the regular physical fit22 ness education classes provided by the agency or 

23 charter school) into multiple areas of the curriculum, 

24 such as courses in math, sciences, social science, 

25 home economics, and nutrition. 


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1 (f) REPORTS.— 

2 (1) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY AND CHAR3 TER SCHOOL REPORTS.—Each local educational 

4 agency and each charter school receiving a grant 

5 under this Act shall, at the end of the last 3-month 

6 period of the pilot program being carried out by the 

7 agency or charter school with such grant funds, sub8 mit to the Secretary a report in such form and con9 taining such information as the Secretary may re10 quire, including information on the improvements in 

11 the physical fitness of students enrolled in the ele12 mentary schools and secondary schools in the agency 

13 or the charter school. 

14 (2) SECRETARY.—Not later than 6 months 

15 after receiving reports under paragraph (1), the Sec16 retary shall transmit to Congress a report on— 

17 (A) the outcomes of the pilot programs 

18 carried out with such grant funds, including the 

19 improvements in the physical fitness of students 

20 participating in such programs; and 

21 (B) recommendations on improving the 

22 core curriculum of physical fitness in elemen23 tary schools and secondary schools. 

24 (g) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act: 


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1 (1) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘‘local edu2 cational agency’’; ‘‘elementary school’’; and ‘‘sec3 ondary school’’ have the meanings given such terms 

4 in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary 

5 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

6 (2) CHARTER SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘charter 

7 school’’ has the meaning given the term in section 

8 5210 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 

9 Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7221i). 

10 (3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

11 the Secretary of Education. 

12 (4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 

13 the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the 

14 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 

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