House File 2210 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY MASCHER Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act requiring students in kindergarten through grade twelve to 2 participate in physical education for a specified number of 3 minutes per week. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 6221HH 82 6 ak/rj/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 256.11, subsections 2, 3, and 4, Code 1 2 Supplement 2007, are amended to read as follows: 1 3 2. The kindergarten program shall include experiences 1 4 designed to develop healthy emotional and social habits and 1 5 growth in the language arts and communication skills, as well 1 6 as a capacity for the completion of individual tasks, and 1 7 protect and increase physical well=being with attention given 1 8 to experiences relating to the development of life skills and 1 9 human growth and development and physical activity. A 1 10 kindergarten teacher shall be licensed to teach in 1 11 kindergarten. Effective July 1, 2012, students shall 1 12 participate in physical education one hundred minutes per 1 13 week. An accredited nonpublic school must meet the 1 14 requirements of this subsection only if the nonpublic school 1 15 offers a kindergarten program. 1 16 3. The following areas shall be taught in grades one 1 17 through six: English=language arts, social studies, 1 18 mathematics, science, health, age=appropriate and 1 19 research=based human growth and development, physical 1 20 education, traffic safety, music, and visual art. The health 1 21 curriculum shall include the characteristics of communicable 1 22 diseases including acquired immune deficiency syndrome. 1 23 Effective July 1, 2012, students shall participate in physical 1 24 education one hundred minutes per week. The state board as 1 25 part of accreditation standards shall adopt curriculum 1 26 definitions for implementing the elementary program. 1 27 4. The following shall be taught in grades seven and 1 28 eight: English=language arts; social studies; mathematics; 1 29 science; health; age=appropriate and research=based human 1 30 growth and development; family, consumer, career, and 1 31 technology education; physical education; music; and visual 1 32 art. The health curriculum shall include age=appropriate and 1 33 research=based information regarding the characteristics of 1 34 sexually transmitted diseases, including HPV and the 1 35 availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV, and acquired immune 2 1 deficiency syndrome. Effective July 1, 2012, students shall 2 2 participate in physical education one hundred minutes per 2 3 week. The state board as part of accreditation standards 2 4 shall adopt curriculum definitions for implementing the 2 5 program in grades seven and eight. However, this subsection 2 6 shall not apply to the teaching of family, consumer, career, 2 7 and technology education in nonpublic schools. For purposes 2 8 of this section, "age=appropriate", "HPV", and 2 9 "research=based" mean the same as defined in section 279.50. 2 10 Sec. 2. Section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph g, 2 11 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code Supplement 2007, is amended to 2 12 read as follows: 2 13 All students physically able shall be required to 2 14 participate in physical education activities during each 2 15 semester they are enrolled in school except as otherwise 2 16 provided in this paragraph.A minimum of one=eighth unit each 2 17 semester is required.Effective July 1, 2012, students shall 2 18 participate in physical education one hundred minutes per week 2 19 and two credits of physical education shall be required to 2 20 graduate. A twelfth grade student who meets the requirements 2 21 of this paragraph may be excused from the physical education 2 22 requirement by the principal of the school in which the 2 23 student is enrolled if the parent or guardian of the student 2 24 requests in writing that the student be excused from the 2 25 physical education requirement. A student who wishes to be 2 26 excused from the physical education requirement must be 2 27 seeking to be excused in order to enroll in academic courses 2 28 not otherwise available to the student, or be enrolled or 2 29 participating in one of the following: 2 30 Sec. 3. STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED. In accordance 2 31 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring 2 32 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall 2 33 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid 2 34 received by the school district under section 257.16. This 2 35 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed 3 1 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section 3 2 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be 3 3 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and 3 4 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts. 3 5 EXPLANATION 3 6 This bill requires, effective July 1, 2012, that all 3 7 students in kindergarten through grade 12 participate in 100 3 8 minutes of physical education per week. Also effective July 3 9 1, 2012, students in high school must earn two credits of 3 10 physical education in order to graduate. 3 11 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 3 12 section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any 3 13 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school 3 14 district from state school foundation aid received by the 3 15 school district under Code section 257.16. The specification 3 16 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state 3 17 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2. 3 18 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate 3 19 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any 3 20 state mandates in the bill. 3 21 LSB 6221HH 82 3 22 ak/rj/8