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Committee adopts two amendments to SB 339 to bar withholding physical activity for discipline and to authorize a state fitness test; bill moved out of committee
Summary
The committee approved amendments to Senate Bill 339 prohibiting removal of student physical activity (including recess) as a disciplinary measure and authorizing reinstatement of a Kansas state fitness test; the bill, as amended, passed out of committee by voice vote.
Senator Shane introduced two amendments to Senate Bill 339 and the committee considered and approved both by voice votes before moving the bill out of committee.
The first amendment would prohibit taking a student’s recess or other "physical activity" as a form of discipline. Senator Shane explained the amendment’s intent to protect student…
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