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Read. Follow. Verify.Idaho House Bill 833 would require daily outdoor recess for elementary students and encourage breaks for middle schoolers
Last action · March 9, 2026: Rules Suspended: Ayes 65 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 5, read in full as required – FAILED - 30-35-5 AYES – Barbieri, Beiswenger, Boyle, Bruce, Cayler, Crane(12), Crane(13), Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson(Larsen), Garner, Hall(Stone), Harris, Hill, Holtzclaw, Hostetler, Leavitt, Marmon, Mendive, Miller, Monks, Palmer, Pickett, Price, Rasor, Redman, Sauter, Scott, Shirts, Tanner(14) NAYS – Alfieri, Berch, Bingham, Burgoyne, Cannon, Cheatum, Church, Cornilles, Dygert, Egbert, Fuhriman, Furniss, Galaviz, Gannon, Handy, Haws, Mathias, Mickelsen, Mitchell, Nelsen, Petzke, Pohanka, Raybould, Raymond, Rubel, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner(13), Thompson, Vander Woude, Veile, Weber, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Mr. Speaker Absent – Green, Hawkins, Healey, Manwaring, McCann Floor Sponsor - Redman Filed in Office of the Chief Clerk
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What This Bill Proposed
Idaho public schools, s, and public charter schools would be required to provide at least 20 minutes of daily outdoor recess for kindergarten through grade 5 students, and encouraged to provide unstructured activity breaks for grades 6 through 8, starting July 1, 2026.
Changes daily scheduling requirements for every public elementary school in the state, guaranteeing a minimum physical activity window that cannot be withheld for disciplinary reasons outside of incidents occurring during recess.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Students in kindergarten through grade 5
Guaranteed at least 20 minutes of daily recess outdoors or indoors.
Students in grades 6 through 8
Eligible to receive encouraged daily unstructured activity breaks.
School districts and public charter schools
Required to adjust daily schedules to accommodate mandatory elementary recess and restrict disciplinary withholding.
Key Facts
- School districts, specially charted districts, and public charter schools must provide daily outdoor recess to students in kindergarten through grade 5.
- Recess must occur at least once daily for not less than 20 minutes, weather and scheduling permitting.
- If weather prevents outdoor activity, daily recess must be accommodated indoors, such as in a gymnasium.
- Recess cannot be withheld for disciplinary purposes unless the disciplinary cause occurred during the recess period.
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- Schools are encouraged, but not required, to provide daily unstructured activity breaks for students in grades 6 through 8.
- The measure carries an emergency clause making it effective on July 1, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this bill apply to middle school students?
Can a teacher take away recess as a punishment for misbehavior in class?
What happens if the weather is bad outside?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Failed in the House.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 9, 2026Rules Suspended: Ayes 65 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 5, read in full as required – FAILED - 30-35-5 AYES – Barbieri, Beiswenger, Boyle, Bruce, Cayler, Crane(12), Crane(13), Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson(Larsen), Garner, Hall(Stone), Harris, Hill, Holtzclaw, Hostetler, Leavitt, Marmon, Mendive, Miller, Monks, Palmer, Pickett, Price, Rasor, Redman, Sauter, Scott, Shirts, Tanner(14) NAYS – Alfieri, Berch, Bingham, Burgoyne, Cannon, Cheatum, Church, Cornilles, Dygert, Egbert, Fuhriman, Furniss, Galaviz, Gannon, Handy, Haws, Mathias, Mickelsen, Mitchell, Nelsen, Petzke, Pohanka, Raybould, Raymond, Rubel, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner(13), Thompson, Vander Woude, Veile, Weber, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Mr. Speaker Absent – Green, Hawkins, Healey, Manwaring, McCann Floor Sponsor - Redman Filed in Office of the Chief Clerk
- Mar 9, 2026Read second time; Filed for Third Reading
- Mar 6, 2026Reported Printed; Filed for Second Reading
- Mar 5, 2026IntroducedIntroduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing
Version history
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy35Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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