Bill Text: TX HB1281 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a notification requirement if a public school, including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse assigned to the school during all instructional hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-02 - Left pending in committee [HB1281 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1281-Introduced.html
| 88R1834 CAE-F | ||
| By: Jones of Harris | H.B. No. 1281 | |
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| relating to a notification requirement if a public school, | ||
| including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse | ||
| assigned to the school during all instructional hours. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.020 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.020. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING NURSES. (a) | ||
| In this section, "nurse" means a person licensed under Chapter 301, | ||
| Occupations Code. | ||
| (b) Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (g), a public | ||
| school, including an open-enrollment charter school, that does not | ||
| have a full-time nurse or the equivalent of a full-time nurse | ||
| assigned to be present at the school for more than 30 consecutive | ||
| instructional days during the same school year shall provide | ||
| written notice of the absence to the parent of or other person | ||
| standing in parental relation to each student enrolled in the | ||
| school. | ||
| (c) A school has the equivalent of a full-time nurse under | ||
| Subsection (b) if the school has two or more nurses assigned to the | ||
| school and all regular student instructional hours at the school | ||
| during the regular school day are covered by the assignment of at | ||
| least one nurse. | ||
| (d) The principal of the school shall provide the notice | ||
| required by Subsection (b) not later than the 30th instructional | ||
| day after the first day the school does not have a full-time nurse | ||
| or the equivalent of a full-time nurse assigned to be present at the | ||
| school. | ||
| (e) The school shall: | ||
| (1) make a good faith effort to ensure that the notice | ||
| required by this section is provided in a bilingual form to any | ||
| parent or other person standing in parental relation whose primary | ||
| language is not English; and | ||
| (2) retain a copy of any notice provided under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (f) A school may satisfy the notice requirement under | ||
| Subsection (d) by posting the notice on the school's Internet | ||
| website. Notice posted under this subsection must be accessible | ||
| from the home page of the Internet website by use of not more than | ||
| three links. | ||
| (g) This section does not apply to a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school with a student enrollment of less | ||
| than 10,000 students. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
