California Education Code

§ 51210.1

EDC § 51210.1 Effective Jan 1, 2003Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 28 · Ch. 2 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)(1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(A)The Education Code currently mandates 200 minutes of physical education every 10 schooldays for pupils in elementary school. Recent studies have shown that the vast majority of children and youth are not physically fit.

(B)According to a March 1997 report by the Centers for Disease Control, the percentage of children and adolescents who are overweight has more than doubled in the last 30 years. Most of this increase occurred within the last 10 years.

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Legislative history

Added by renumbering Section 51223.1 by Stats. 2002, Ch. 943, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2003.