Bill Text: FL S0078 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public School Recess
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2017-05-05 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7069 (Ch. 2017-116) [S0078 Detail]
Download: Florida-2017-S0078-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2017 SB 78 By Senator Flores 39-00067A-17 201778__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to public school recess; amending s. 3 1003.455, F.S.; requiring each district school board 4 to provide students in certain grades with a minimum 5 number of minutes of free-play recess per week and 6 with a minimum number of consecutive minutes of free 7 play recess per day; providing an effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1. Subsection (6) is added to section 1003.455, 12 Florida Statutes, to read: 13 1003.455 Physical education; assessment.— 14 (6) In addition to the requirements in subsection (3), each 15 district school board shall provide at least 100 minutes of 16 supervised, safe, and unstructured free-play recess each week 17 for students in kindergarten through grade 5 so that there are 18 at least 20 consecutive minutes of free-play recess per day. 19 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.