SB 339 — Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term.

AsAmended by House Committee {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} As Amended by Senate Committee Session of 2026 SENATE BILLNo.

New Section 1. (a) {Beginning in school year 2027-2028, }for each school day that exceeds five hours in duration, each school district shall provide a minimum of 30 minutes of daily organized recess and a minimum of 60 minutes of moderate physical activity within the school day for all students in elementary grades kindergarten through five.

Such physical activity may occur during recess, physical education class or other organized activity.activity as designated by the school district, except that elementary grades shall not include any grade higher than grade five.

"Moderate physical activity" does not include time during whichSB a339—Am. student is permitted to use an electronic device or walking to and from class.

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by{(2)(c)  SCWAs 2used in this section,"recess" means the regularly scheduled time during the school day when students may engage in supervised unstructured play, physical activity or social interaction with other students.

2. (a) Beginning in school year 2026-2027, theThe state board of education shall establish a Kansas state physical fitness test that is aligned with the presidential physical fitness test to assess the overall fitness of students in grades one through 12.12 after the standards for the presidential physical fitness test are published.

The statestthe bothdboard shall provide an award for students who meet or exceed the state's 50th percentile and an award for students who meet or exceed the state's 85 percentile on one or more test events.

(b) Each(b) Beginning in school year 2026-2027, each school district shall annually administer the Kansas state physical fitness test to each student enrolled in grades one through 12.

(c) Subject to a plan developed and adopted by the board of any schoolSB district,339—Am. the board may schedule the school days required for a school term provided for under subsection (a), or the school hours required for a school term provided for in a policy adopted under subsection (b), on a trimestral or quarterly basis.

by HC 3 school district, the board may schedule the school days required for a school term provided for under subsection (a), or the school hours required for a school term provided for in a policy adopted under subsection (b), on a trimestral or quarterly basis.

The plan shall be prepared in such form and manner as SBthe 339—Am.state board shall require requires and shall be submitted at a time or times to be determined and specified by the state board.

by SCW 3 the state board shall require requires and shall be submitted at a time or times to be determined and specified by the state board.

(1) The number of compensatorySB days339—Am. or hours scheduled by the board;

by HC 4 compensatory days or hours scheduled by the board;

(1) Certification by a board SBthat, 339—Am.due to the persistence of inclement weather, hazardous driving conditions have existed in the school district for an inordinate period of time;

by SCW 4 that, due to the persistence of inclement weather, hazardous driving conditions have existed in the school district for an inordinate period of time;