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(l) The State Board of Education, after consulting with educators, parents, and medical professionals, by rule may require a student enrolled in kindergarten or a grade level below grade nine to participate in daily physical activity as part of a school district's physical education curriculum or through structured activity during a school campus's daily recess, except that the board may not require more than 30 minutes of daily physical activity. If the board adopts rules under this subsection, the board must ensure by rule that students enrolled in middle and junior high school settings are allowed to meet the physical activity requirement by participating in physical activity twice each week throughout the school year or the option to schedule at least two semesters overall. If the board adopts rules under this subsection, the board must provide for an exemption for: (1) any student who is unable to participate in daily physical activity because of illness or disability; and (2) a middle school or junior high school student who participates in an extracurricular activity with a physical activity component that is considered a structured activity under rules adopted by the State Board of Education. (l-1) In adopting rules relating to an activity described by Subsection (l)(2), the State Board of Education may permit an exemption for a student who participates in a school-related activity or an activity sponsored by a private league or club only if the student provides proof of participation in the activity. (l-2) To encourage school districts to promote physical activity for children through classroom curricula for health and physical education, the agency, in consultation with the Department of State Health Services, shall designate nationally recognized health and physical education program guidelines that a school district may use in the health curriculum under Subsection (a)(2)(B) or the physical education curriculum under Subsection