Senate Bill S6194

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires instruction in physical education in certain elementary and secondary schools

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S6194 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3902
2013-2014: S3254
2015-2016: S2523
2017-2018: S2257
2019-2020: S4226
2021-2022: S5014

2023-S6194 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires instruction in physical education in certain elementary and secondary schools including for students with disabling conditions and those in alternative education programs.

2023-S6194 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6194 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6194
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  instruction
   in physical education in certain elementary and secondary schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. (i) The legislature  hereby  finds  and
 declares that the health and physical activity of its children and youth
 are and have been a long-standing health objective of the state. Against
 a  background  of  epidemic levels of child obesity, in which at least 1
 out of 3 children is now considered overweight or obese, physical educa-
 tion has become even more particularly important in the role it plays in
 the state's health objectives for its children and youths.
   (ii) According to the  Centers  for  Disease  Control  and  Prevention
 (CDC),  the  academic success of America's youth is strongly linked with
 their health.   Furthermore, the CDC has  studied  and  documented  that
 students  who  engage in sixty minutes or more of physical activity five
 or more days per week do better in school. Research also indicates  that
 obese  children  and  youth  have  higher  absenteeism and lower reading
 proficiency scores than their non-obese peers.
   (iii) Although it may be correlation and not causation, many kids  are
 spending  less time exercising and more time in front of the TV, comput-
 er, or video-game console. And today's busy  families  have  fewer  free
 moments  to  prepare  nutritious,  home-cooked  meals. From fast food to
 electronics, quick and easy is the reality for many people  in  the  new
 millennium.
   (iv)  Our  schools  are  uniquely  positioned  to  meet children's and
 youth's physical activity needs. Physical education can be  the  corner-
 stone  of building healthier student bodies, healthier neighborhoods and
 higher achievement. This is true in  physical  education's  role  as  an
 integral  part  of  a  school's  instruction,  health education classes,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07584-01-3
              

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