HR 1057 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

FIT Kids Act

Introduced Mar 14, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Ron Kind D-WI

Latest action · Apr 4, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 14, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act or FIT Kids Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require annual state and local educational agency report cards to include specified information on school health and physical education programs.

Includes the promotion of healthy, active lifestyles by students within ESEA grant programs that support school counseling, smaller learning communities, community learning centers, and parental involvement in their childrens' education.

Revises the professional development program for teachers and principals to include training for physical and health education teachers, and training on improving students' health habits and participation in physical activities.

Directs the Secretary of Education to contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a study that: (1) assesses the effect health and physical education have on students' ability to learn; and (2) makes recommendations for improving, and measuring improvements to, their health and physical education in schools.

Cosponsors 96

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2011 to Sep 21, 2012; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Jay Inslee	Original	Mar 14, 2011
R-PA	Jim Gerlach	Original	Mar 14, 2011
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson	Original	Mar 14, 2011
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 16, 2011
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Mar 16, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Bob Filner		Mar 17, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Mar 17, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Mar 17, 2011
D-NC	David E. Price		Mar 30, 2011
D-IA	David Loebsack		Mar 30, 2011
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Mar 30, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Mar 30, 2011
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Mar 30, 2011
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Mar 30, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Mar 30, 2011
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Mar 30, 2011
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Mar 30, 2011
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Mar 30, 2011
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Mar 30, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Mar 30, 2011
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Mar 30, 2011
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Apr 1, 2011
D-CO	Jared Polis		Apr 1, 2011
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 7, 2011
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Apr 7, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Apr 7, 2011
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega		Apr 7, 2011
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Apr 7, 2011
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Apr 7, 2011
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Apr 7, 2011
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Apr 8, 2011
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Apr 8, 2011
D-VA	James P. Moran		Apr 13, 2011
D-PA	Jason Altmire		Apr 13, 2011
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Apr 13, 2011
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Apr 13, 2011
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Apr 13, 2011
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Apr 14, 2011
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Apr 14, 2011
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Apr 14, 2011
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Apr 14, 2011
D-KY	Ben Chandler		May 3, 2011
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson		May 3, 2011
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		May 3, 2011
D-FL	Kathy Castor		May 3, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson		May 3, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		May 4, 2011
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		May 4, 2011
D-CA	Lois Capps		May 4, 2011
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		May 5, 2011
R-IL	Aaron Schock		May 10, 2011
D-NC	Brad Miller		May 10, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		May 10, 2011
R-IL	Judy Biggert		May 10, 2011
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		May 10, 2011
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		May 10, 2011
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		May 11, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 13, 2011
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Jun 1, 2011
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Jun 1, 2011
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jun 1, 2011
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Jun 2, 2011
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Jun 2, 2011
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jun 2, 2011
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 2, 2011
R-AK	Don Young		Jun 3, 2011
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jun 14, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jun 14, 2011
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jun 15, 2011
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jun 23, 2011
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Jul 6, 2011
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Jul 6, 2011
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Jul 6, 2011
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Jul 8, 2011
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Aug 1, 2011
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Sep 9, 2011
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Sep 9, 2011
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Oct 4, 2011
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Oct 4, 2011
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Oct 14, 2011
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Oct 14, 2011
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Jan 25, 2012
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jan 25, 2012
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Feb 2, 2012
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Feb 2, 2012
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Mar 5, 2012
R-WA	David G. Reichert		Apr 19, 2012
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		May 9, 2012
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		May 30, 2012
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Jun 6, 2012
R-IL	Robert J. Dold		Jun 6, 2012
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Sep 14, 2012
D-AZ	Ron Barber		Sep 21, 2012

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Mar 14, 2011
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Apr 4, 2011

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 4, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Mar 14, 2011Introduced in House
Mar 14, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1721	Jay Inslee D-WA	Sep 23, 2011

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress' authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1796.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 576	FIT Kids Act	Identical bill	Mar 15, 2011

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve standards for physical education.
Short Titles as Introduced: FIT Kids Act; Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 14, 2011Introduced in House

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