Bill Text: TX SB69 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
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: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-04 - Referred to Public Education [SB69 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB69-Engrossed.html
| By: Ellis, Seliger | S.B. No. 69 | |
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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 38.020 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.020. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING NURSES. | ||
| (a) In this section, "nurse" means a nurse licensed under Chapter | ||
| 301, Occupations Code. | ||
| (b) 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 on 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. | ||
| (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 those nurses' combined presence covers all regular | ||
| student instructional hours at a campus during the regular school | ||
| day. | ||
| (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 | ||
| assigned to be present on the campus. | ||
| (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) A school district that is located in a county with a | ||
| population of less than 100,000 is not required to provide the | ||
| notice required by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
