Centerville legislative report highlights bills on recess, fitness testing and cell-phone limits

A legislative liaison told the Centerville City School Board on an evening meeting that multiple state bills and a recent federal executive order could change school rules on recess, physical fitness testing and cell-phone use.

The liaison said State Representative Tom Young has cosponsored House Bill 304, which would broaden a high-school physical-education waiver so that club sports and other athletic activities could count for PE credit and would require 30 minutes of recess twice daily for kindergarten through eighth-grade students except on days with scheduled PE. The liaison also described House Bill 371, introduced in June, which would add elected officials to the list of adults designated as mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.

"So recent legislative reports have focused on the impacts of House Bill 96, the state budget," the…