[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2684 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2684

   To establish a competitive pilot program that utilizes community, 
 innovation, and technology to improve physical fitness education and 
        curriculum in elementary schools and secondary schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2011

 Mr. Boswell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To establish a competitive pilot program that utilizes community, 
 innovation, and technology to improve physical fitness education and 
        curriculum in elementary schools and secondary schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as ``P.E. for the 21st Century Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL FITNESS EDUCATION 
              AND CURRICULUM.

    (a) In General.--From the amounts appropriated to carry out this 
Act, the Secretary shall award not fewer than 10, but not more than 20 
grants, on a competitive basis, to local educational agencies and 
charter schools to improve physical fitness education and curriculum in 
elementary schools and secondary schools.
    (b) Limitation.--The Secretary may not award a grant under this Act 
to more than 1 local educational agency or charter school in each 
State.
    (c) Diversity.--To the extent possible, the Secretary shall ensure 
that grants under this Act are distributed throughout different regions 
of the Nation, and that the recipients of a grant under this Act 
represent the size, ethnic, economic, and geographic diversity 
(including rural and urban) of local educational agencies and charter 
schools throughout the Nation.
    (d) Applications.--
            (1) In general.--To receive a grant under this Act, a local 
        educational agency or charter school shall submit an 
        application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and 
        containing such information as the Secretary may require.
            (2) Deadline.--The Secretary shall ensure that the deadline 
        for submitting applications under paragraph (1) is not later 
        than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (e) Uses of Funds.--Each local educational agency and each charter 
school receiving a grant under this Act shall use such funds to carry 
out, for 1 school year, a pilot program that--
            (1) makes technology (such as heart rate monitors, body 
        mass testing, and body fat testing) a key component of testing 
        and assessing the physical fitness and improvement of each 
        student enrolled in elementary schools and secondary schools in 
        the agency or the charter school;
            (2) creates partnerships between the agency or charter 
        school and local business (such as gyms, groceries, and 
        farmer's markets) to ensure community support for the program, 
        and local financial and professional assistance; and
            (3) incorporates physical fitness education (in addition to 
        and outside of the regular physical fitness education classes 
        provided by the agency or charter school) into multiple areas 
        of the curriculum, such as courses in math, sciences, social 
        science, home economics, and nutrition.
    (f) Reports.--
            (1) Local educational agency and charter school reports.--
        Each local educational agency and each charter school receiving 
        a grant under this Act shall, at the end of the last 3-month 
        period of the pilot program being carried out by the agency or 
        charter school with such grant funds, submit to the Secretary a 
        report in such form and containing such information as the 
        Secretary may require, including information on the 
        improvements in the physical fitness of students enrolled in 
        the elementary schools and secondary schools in the agency or 
        the charter school.
            (2) Secretary.--Not later than 6 months after receiving 
        reports under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall transmit to 
        Congress a report on--
                    (A) the outcomes of the pilot programs carried out 
                with such grant funds, including the improvements in 
                the physical fitness of students participating in such 
                programs; and
                    (B) recommendations on improving the core 
                curriculum of physical fitness in elementary schools 
                and secondary schools.
    (g) Definitions.--For purposes of this Act:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``local educational agency''; 
        ``elementary school''; and ``secondary school'' have the 
        meanings given such terms in section 9101 of the Elementary and 
        Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (2) Charter school.--The term ``charter school'' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 5210 of the Elementary and 
        Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7221i).
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Education.
            (4) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the 50 States, 
        the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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