Bill Text: TX HB2117 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a notification requirement if a public school campus or open-enrollment charter school does not have a nurse assigned to the campus during all instructional hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-08 - Referred to Public Education [HB2117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2117-Introduced.html
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| By: Coleman | H.B. No. 2117 | |
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| relating to a notification requirement if a public school campus or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school does not have a nurse assigned to | ||
| the campus 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 38.021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.021. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING SCHOOL | ||
| NURSES. (a) A public school, including an open-enrollment charter | ||
| school, that does not have a full-time school nurse or the | ||
| equivalent of a full-time school nurse assigned to the campus for | ||
| more than 30 consecutive instructional days during the same school | ||
| year shall provide written notice of the absence of a nurse to the | ||
| parent of or other person standing in parental relation to each | ||
| student enrolled in the school. | ||
| (b) A school has the equivalent of a full-time school nurse | ||
| under Subsection (a) if the school has one or more nurses licensed | ||
| under Chapter 301, Occupations Code, assigned to the school and | ||
| those nurses' combined assignments cover all regular student | ||
| instructional hours at a campus during the regular school day. | ||
| (c) The principal of the school shall provide the notice | ||
| required by Subsection (a) not later than the 30th instructional | ||
| day after the first day the school does not have a full-time school | ||
| nurse assigned to the campus. | ||
| (d) 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. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
