Kansas SB 339: Making workers compensation death benefits adequate and equivalent with respect to recent benefit limit changes.

Bill Text

As Amended by House Committee
{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}
As Amended by Senate Committee
Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 339
By Committee on Education
1-15
AN ACT concerning education; relating to school districts; requiring
school districts to provide at least 30 minutes a certain amount of daily
recess and moderate physical activity time for students in grades
kindergarten through five; prohibiting limiting or withholding
physical activity{ recess} for disciplinary reasons; requiring the
establishment and administration of a Kansas state fitness test;
designating such the required recess time as part of the school term;
amending K.S.A. 72-3115 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
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.
Notwithstanding such minimum daily requirement, school districts should
provide at least 60 minutes of such recess eight and a minimum of 30
minutes of moderate physical activity within the school day for all
students in grades nine through 12. Such physical activity may occur
during recess, physical education class or other organized activity as
designated by the school district, except that elementary grades shall
not include any grade higher than grade five. Any such recess may be
supervised by licensed or unlicensed school personnel.
(b) Physical activity{Recess }shall not be limited or withheld for
disciplinary reasons unless such student is an immediate threat to self or
others.
(c) As used in this section,{:
(1)} "moderate physical activity" means low-to-medium impact
physical exertion designed to increase a student's heart rate to rise to at
least 75% of the student's maximum heart rate. "Moderate physical
activity" includes, but is not limited to, running, calisthenics and aerobic
exercise. "Moderate physical activity" does not include time during
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which a student is permitted to use an electronic device or walking to
and from class.
{(2)(c) As used 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. "Recess" does not include time in physical education
class.}
New Sec. 2. (a) Beginning in school year 2026-2027, The 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 after the standards
for the presidential physical fitness test are published. The state board
shall update the test as often as required to maintain alignment with the
presidential physical fitness test. The state board shall provide an award
for students who meet or exceed the state's 50
th percentile and an award
for students who meet or exceed the state's 85
th percentile on one or
more test events.
(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. This requirement shall not apply to
any student who is a child with a disability, as defined in K.S.A. 72-3404,
and amendments thereto, or has a medical exemption as determined by a
licensed physician.
Sec. 2. 3. {On and after July 1, 2027, }K.S.A. 72-3115 is hereby
amended to read as follows: 72-3115. (a) Subject to the other provisions of
this section, a school term during which public school shall be maintained
in each school year by each school district organized under the laws of this
state shall consist of not less than 186 school days for pupils students
attending kindergarten or any of the grades one through 11 and not less
than 181 school days for pupils students attending grade 12.
(b) Subject to a policy developed and adopted by the board of any
school district, the board may provide for a school term consisting of
school hours. A school term provided for in a policy adopted under this
subsection shall consist of: (1) For pupils students attending kindergarten,
not less than 465 school hours in each school year; and (2) for pupils
students attending any of the grades one through 11, not less than 1,116
school hours in each school year; and (3) for pupils students attending
grade 12, not less than 1,086 school hours in each school year. Each board
of education which that develops and adopts a policy providing for a
school term in accordance with this subsection shall notify the state board
of education thereof on or before September 15 in each school year for
which th