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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 physical activity and moved the amendment; Senator Murphy seconded. The committee adopted the amendment by voice vote.
The second amendment proposed reinstating a Kansas State fitness test (described by proponents as akin to the historic "presidential fitness test"). Members debated whether defining or requiring such a test would intrude on the State Board of Education’s standards and whether a statutory definition already existed. Tamara, the reviser, reported there is currently no statutory definition of a "presidential physical fitness test." Senator Shane moved the amendment and Senator Rose seconded; the committee adopted the amendment by voice vote.
After amendments, Senator Shane moved that the committee pass Senate Bill 339 as amended favorably for passage; Senator Starnes seconded. The committee voted by voice and the motion carried. The committee adjourned at the conclusion of the session.
No roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript; votes were taken by voice and the chair recorded the motions as carried.
