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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO
HOUSE BILL 2948
By COMMITTEE ON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
March 4
Delete lines 4 through 22 of the printed bill and insert:
“SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section:
“(a) ‘Administrator’ has the meaning given that term in ORS 342.120.
“(b) ‘Practice of nursing’ has the meaning given that term in ORS 678.010.
“(c) ‘School nurse’ has the meaning given that term in ORS 342.455.
“(2) A school nurse, or a registered nurse whose responsibilities include the coordination
of school nursing services provided to individual students pursuant to ORS 336.201, shall co-
ordinate school nursing services to ensure care for individual students in a school to the
extent that the care is within the practice of nursing.
“(3)(a) An administrator or other staff member who is not a nurse may supervise, eval-
uate or direct a school nurse or registered nurse described in subsection (2) of this section
for purposes related to the nurse’s role as a school employee, including but not limited to
assigning the nurse’s work hours, locations and workload and other matters addressed
through a collective bargaining agreement.
“(b) An administrator or other staff member may not direct the school nurse or regis-
tered nurse in the practice of nursing.
“(4) Nothing in this section:
“(a) Requires a school nurse or registered nurse to be clinically supervised in a school
setting;
“(b) Requires a school district that employs a school nurse or registered nurse to provide
a clinical supervisor for the nurse; or
“(c) Prohibits another nurse, or an administrator or other staff member who is not a
nurse, from conferring with the school nurse or registered nurse with respect to the practice
of nursing or issues related to student safety.”.
LC 2936/HB 2948-2