Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1166
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Hays moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (913116) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 1206 and 1207
    5  insert:
    6         Section 11. 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  classroom teacher is required to allow their students at least
   27  150 minutes of supervised, safe, and unstructured free-play
   28  recess each week for students in kindergarten through grade 5
   29  and for students in grade 6 who are enrolled in a school that
   30  contains one or more elementary grades so that there are at
   31  least 15 consecutive minutes of free-play recess in the morning
   32  and 15 consecutive minutes of free-play recess in the afternoon
   33  per day.
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   35  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   36  And the title is amended as follows:
   37         Delete line 2680
   38  and insert:
   39         credit; amending s. 1003.455, F.S.; requiring each
   40         classroom teacher to allow students in certain grades
   41         a specified number of consecutive minutes of free-play
   42         recess per day; amending s. 1004.935, F.S.; deleting
   43         the