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1	1	By: Deuell S.B. No. 504
2	2	(King of Taylor)
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the requirement that certain schoolchildren be screened
8	8	for abnormal spinal curvature.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 37.001, Health
11	11	and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
12	12	(b) The board, in cooperation with the Texas Education
13	13	Agency, shall adopt rules requiring each public school to choose
14	14	either to participate in the [for the mandatory] spinal screening
15	15	program for [of] children in grades 6 and 9 attending the public [or
16	16	private] school or to provide information developed by the
17	17	department on abnormal spinal curvature to the parents, managing
18	18	conservators, or guardians of children in grades 6 through 9
19	19	attending the public school [schools]. The department shall
20	20	coordinate the spinal screening program with any other screening
21	21	program conducted by the department on those children.
22	22	(c) The board shall adopt substantive and procedural rules
23	23	necessary to administer screening activities and for the
24	24	development and provision of information on abnormal spinal
25	25	curvature.
26	26	SECTION 2. Section 37.002, Health and Safety Code, is
27	27	amended to read as follows:
28	28	Sec. 37.002. [COMPLIANCE WITH] SCREENING REQUIREMENTS.
29	29	(a) If a public school requires an [Each] individual [required by
30	30	board rule] to be screened, the individual shall undergo approved
31	31	screening for abnormal spinal curvature. The individual's parent,
32	32	managing conservator, or guardian may substitute professional
33	33	examinations for the screening.
34	34	(b) An individual is exempt from screening if screening
35	35	conflicts with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or
36	36	religious denomination of which the individual is an adherent or a
37	37	member. To qualify for the exemption, the individual's parent,
38	38	managing conservator, or guardian must submit to the chief
39	39	administrator on or before the day of the screening procedure an
40	40	affidavit stating the objections to screening. The chief
41	41	administrator must make the information on abnormal spinal
42	42	curvature developed under Section 37.001 available to the exempted
43	43	individual's parent, managing conservator, or guardian.
44	44	(c) If screening is required, the [The] chief administrator
45	45	of each school shall ensure that each individual admitted to the
46	46	school complies with the screening requirements set by the board or
47	47	submits an affidavit of exemption.
48	48	SECTION 3. Not later than March 1, 2014, the Department of
49	49	State Health Services shall develop the information required by
50	50	Subsection (b), Section 37.001, Health and Safety Code, as amended
51	51	by this Act.
52	52	SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2014-2015
53	53	school year.
54	54	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
55	55	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
56	56	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
57	57	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
58	58	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.