Filed April 20, 2026 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment increases the required daily physical activity for kindergarten through fourth-grade students from thirty to forty minutes. It also updates the numbering of certain sections related to physical activity requirements and student exemptions.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 17, after line 29 by inserting: “DIVISION ___ STUDENT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS Sec. ___. Section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph g, subparagraph (3), Code 2026, is amended to read as follows: (3) A student who is enrolled in a junior reserve officers’ training corps shall not be required to participate in physical education activities under subparagraph (1) or to meet the physical activity requirements of subsection 6 , paragraph “b” , subparagraph (2) (3) , but shall receive one-eighth unit of physical education credit for each semester, or the equivalent, of junior reserve officers’ training corps the student completes. Sec. ___. Section 256.11, subsection 6, paragraph b, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows: b. (1) All physically able students in kindergarten through grade five four shall be required to engage in a physical activity for a minimum of thirty forty minutes per school day. (2) All physically able students in grade five shall be required to engage in a physical activity for a minimum of thirty minutes per school day. (2) (3) All physically able students in grades six through twelve shall be required to engage in a physical activity for a minimum of one hundred twenty minutes per week. A student participating in an organized and supervised athletic program or non-school-sponsored extracurricular activity which requires the student to participate in physical activity for a minimum of one hundred twenty minutes per week is exempt from the requirements of this subparagraph. (3) (4) The department shall collaborate with stakeholders on the development of daily physical activity requirements and the development of models that describe ways in which school districts and schools may incorporate the physical activity -1- H 8335.4077 (2) 91 ss/ko 1/ 2 requirement of this paragraph into the educational program. A school district or accredited nonpublic school shall not reduce instructional time for academic courses in order to meet the requirements of this paragraph. Sec. ___. Section 256.11, subsection 18, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
- The board of directors of a school district and the authorities in charge of an accredited nonpublic school shall each establish a policy to award credit toward graduation to a student if the student participates in the legislative page program at the state capitol for a regular session of the general assembly. The student shall be excused from the physical education requirements of subsection 5 , paragraph “g” , subparagraph (1), and is exempt from the physical activity requirements of subsection 6 , paragraph “b” , subparagraph (2) (3) , while participating in the legislative page program. The student must complete the graduation requirements of section 256.7, subsection 26 , paragraph “a” , but participation in the legislative page program for a complete regular session of the general assembly shall count as one-half unit of social studies credit required for purposes of section 256.7, subsection 26 , paragraph “a” .”
- By renumbering as necessary.