| Chapter 173 |
| 2018 -- H 7987 Enacted 07/02/2018 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT] |
| Introduced By: Representatives O'Brien, Handy, Vella-Wilkinson, Lima, and Corvese |
| Date Introduced: March 22, 2018 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 16-22-4 of the General Laws in Chapter 16-22 entitled "Curriculum |
| [See Title 16 Chapter 97 - The Rhode Island Board of Education Act]" is hereby amended to read |
| as follows: |
| 16-22-4. Instruction in health and physical education. |
| (a) All children in grades one through twelve (12) attending public schools, or any other |
| schools managed and controlled by the state, shall receive in those schools instruction in health |
| and physical education under rules and regulations the department of elementary and secondary |
| education may prescribe or approve during periods that shall average at least twenty (20) minutes |
| in each school day. No private school or private instruction shall be approved by any school |
| committee for the purposes of chapter 19 of this title as substantially equivalent to that required |
| by law of a child attending a public school in the same city and/or or town unless instruction in |
| health and physical education similar to that required in public schools shall be given. |
| Commencing September 1, 2012, the required health education curriculum shall be based on the |
| health education standards of the Rhode Island Health Education Framework: Health Literacy |
| health education framework: health literacy for All Students all students as promulgated by |
| the Rhode Island department of education and consistent with the mandated health instructional |
| outcomes therein. Commencing September 1, 2012, the required physical education curriculum |
| shall be based on the physical education standards of the Rhode Island Physical Education |
| Framework: Supporting Physically Active Lifestyles physical education framework: |
| supporting physically active lifestyles through Quality Physical Education quality physical |
| education as promulgated by the Rhode Island department of education and consistent with the |
| instructional outcomes therein. |
| (b) The department of elementary and secondary education shall consider incorporate, in |
| consultation with the state department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and |
| hospitals, the incorporation of substance-abuse prevention and suicide prevention into the health |
| education curriculum. For the purpose of this section, "substance-abuse prevention" means the |
| implementation of evidence-based, age-appropriate programs, practices, or curricula related to the |
| use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; "suicide prevention" means the |
| implementation of evidence-based, appropriate programs, practices, or curricula related to mental |
| health awareness and suicide prevention. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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