I 
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 commu-
nity, innovation, and technology to improve physical fit-
ness education and curriculum in elementary schools and 
secondary schools. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as ‘‘P.E. for the 21st Century 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE PHYS-
ICAL 
FITNESS 
EDUCATION 
AND 
CUR-
RICULUM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts appropriated 
to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall award not fewer 
than 10, but not more than 20 grants, on a competitive 
basis, to local educational agencies and charter schools to 
improve physical fitness education and curriculum in ele-
mentary schools and secondary schools. 
(b) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may not award a 
grant under this Act to more than 1 local educational 
agency or charter school in each State. 
(c) DIVERSITY.—To the extent possible, the Sec-
retary shall ensure that grants under this Act are distrib-
uted throughout different regions of the Nation, and that 
the recipients of a grant under this Act represent the size, 
ethnic, economic, and geographic diversity (including rural 
and urban) of local educational agencies and charter 
schools throughout the Nation. 
(d) APPLICATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—To receive a grant under 
this Act, a local educational agency or charter school 
shall submit an application to the Secretary at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such informa-
tion as the Secretary may require. 
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(2) DEADLINE.—The Secretary shall ensure 
that the deadline for submitting applications under 
paragraph (1) is not later than 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
(e) USES OF FUNDS.—Each local educational agency 
and each charter school receiving a grant under this Act 
shall use such funds to carry out, for 1 school year, a pilot 
program that— 
(1) makes technology (such as heart rate mon-
itors, body mass testing, and body fat testing) a key 
component of testing and assessing the physical fit-
ness and improvement of each student enrolled in el-
ementary schools and secondary schools in the agen-
cy or the charter school; 
(2) creates partnerships between the agency or 
charter school and local business (such as gyms, gro-
ceries, and farmer’s markets) to ensure community 
support for the program, and local financial and 
professional assistance; and 
(3) incorporates physical fitness education (in 
addition to and outside of the regular physical fit-
ness education classes provided by the agency or 
charter school) into multiple areas of the curriculum, 
such as courses in math, sciences, social science, 
home economics, and nutrition. 
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(f) REPORTS.— 
(1) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY AND CHAR-
TER
SCHOOL
REPORTS.—Each local educational 
agency and each charter school receiving a grant 
under this Act shall, at the end of the last 3-month 
period of the pilot program being carried out by the 
agency or charter school with such grant funds, sub-
mit to the Secretary a report in such form and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may re-
quire, including information on the improvements in 
the physical fitness of students enrolled in the ele-
mentary schools and secondary schools in the agency 
or the charter school. 
(2) SECRETARY.—Not later than 6 months 
after receiving reports under paragraph (1), the Sec-
retary shall transmit to Congress a report on— 
(A) the outcomes of the pilot programs 
carried out with such grant funds, including the 
improvements in the physical fitness of students 
participating in such programs; and 
(B) recommendations on improving the 
core curriculum of physical fitness in elemen-
tary schools and secondary schools. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act: 
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(1) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘‘local edu-
cational agency’’; ‘‘elementary school’’; and ‘‘sec-
ondary school’’ have the meanings given such terms 
in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) CHARTER
SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘charter 
school’’ has the meaning given the term in section 
5210 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7221i). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Education. 
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
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