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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2948
Ordered by the House March 4
Including House Amendments dated March 4
Sponsored by Representative NELSON, Senator GELSER BLOUIN, Representative PHAM H; Representative
FRAGALA, Senator PATTERSON (at the request of Oregon School Nurses’ Association, Advocates for Disa-
bility Supports) (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act says who, for certain reasons, can supervise a nurse who works in a school.
(Flesch Readability Score: 84.8).
[Provides that only a registered nurse may supervise a nurse in a school setting with respect to the
practice of nursing.] Allows [an individual] a school administrator or other staff member who is
not a nurse to supervise a school nurse or registered nurse in a school setting for purposes not
related to the practice of nursing. Prohibits an administrator or other individual from directing
a school nurse or registered nurse in the practice of nursing.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to schools.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
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, evalu-
ate 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 as-
signing 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 registered
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
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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nurse, from conferring with the school nurse or registered nurse with respect to the practice
of nursing or issues related to student safety.
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