Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (126962) for SB 1166
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/26/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Hays) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (927682) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 1049 and 1050
    5  insert:
    6         Section 10. Subsection (3) of section 1003.455, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended, and subsection (6) is added to that
    8  section, to read:
    9         1003.455 Physical education; assessment.—
   10         (3) Each district school board shall provide 150 minutes of
   11  physical education each week for students in kindergarten
   12  through grade 5 and for students in grade 6 who are enrolled in
   13  a school that contains one or more elementary grades so that on
   14  any day during which physical education instruction is conducted
   15  there are at least 30 consecutive minutes of physical education
   16  instruction per day. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year,
   17  the equivalent of one class period per day of physical education
   18  for one semester of each year is required for students enrolled
   19  in grades 6 through 8. Students enrolled in such instruction
   20  shall be reported through the periodic student membership
   21  surveys, and records of such enrollment shall be audited
   22  pursuant to s. 1010.305. Such instruction may be provided by any
   23  instructional personnel as defined in s. 1012.01(2), regardless
   24  of certification, who are designated by the school principal.
   25         (6) In addition to the requirements in subsection (3), each
   26  district school board shall provide 100 minutes of supervised,
   27  safe, and unstructured free-play recess each week for students
   28  in kindergarten through grade 5 and for students in grade 6 who
   29  are enrolled in a school that contains one or more elementary
   30  grades so that there are at least 20 consecutive minutes of
   31  free-play recess per day.
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   33  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   34  And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Delete line 2352
   36  and insert:
   37         credit; amending s. 1003.455, F.S.; requiring each
   38         district school board to provide students in certain
   39         grades with a specified number of consecutive minutes
   40         of free-play recess per day; amending s.
   41         1004.935,F.S.; deleting the