Recess

2025-2026 Bill 740: Recess - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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S. 740
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Kennedy
Document Path: SR-0422KM26.docx
Introduced in the Senate on January 13, 2026
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on
Education
Summary: Recess
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

12/10/2025

Senate

Prefiled

12/10/2025

Senate

Referred to Committee on
Education

1/13/2026

Senate

Introduced and read first time (
Senate Journal-page 38
)

1/13/2026

Senate

Referred to Committee on
Education
(
Senate Journal-page 38
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
12/10/2025

A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING
SECTION
59-10-10
, RELATING TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION STANDARDS, SO AS TO PROVIDE
THAT STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE MUST BE PROVIDED A MINIMUM
OF SIXTY MINUTES OF OUTDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY EACH DAY.

B
e it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

S
ECTION 1.
S
ection
59-10-10
(A) of the S.C. Code is amended to
read:

S
ection
59-10-10
.
(
A)
(
1)
The goal of this article is to provide every
elementary student with the equivalent of
thirty
sixty
minutes of physical activity daily.
Beginning in the 2006-07 school year, students in kindergarten
through fifth grade must be provided a minimum of one hundred fifty minutes a
week of physical education and physical activity. In 2006-07, a minimum of
sixty minutes a week must be provided in physical education, and as Section
59-10-20
is phased in, the minimum time for physical education must be
increased to ninety minutes a week.

(
2) Beginning with the 2026-2027 school
year, students in kindergarten through eighth grade must be provided a minimum
of sixty minutes of outdoor physical activity, weather permitting, consisting
of physical education, instructional play, or unstructured play each day.

(
3)
The certified physical
education teacher to student ratio is designed to provide students in
kindergarten through fifth grade with scheduled physical education either every
day or on alternate days throughout the school year and must be based on the
South Carolina Physical Education Curriculum Standards. The student to teacher
ratio in a physical education class may not exceed the average student to
teacher ratio of 28 to 1. An individual student's fitness status must be
reported to his parent or guardian during a student's fifth grade, eighth
grade, and high school physical education courses. The physical activity must
be planned and coordinated by the Physical Education Activity Director pursuant
to Section
59-10-30
.

S
ECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.

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