82R8176 EAH-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 2117
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.