I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5946 
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 29, 2010 
Mr. BOSWELL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
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 grants, 
on a competitive basis, to local educational agencies and 
charter schools to improve physical fitness education and 
curriculum in elementary 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) 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. 
(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. 
(d) 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— 
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(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. 
(e) 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-
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