Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB193 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 11/14/2022

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                            88R1834 CAE-F
 By: Miles S.B. No. 193


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 relating to a notification requirement if a public school,
 including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse
 assigned to the school 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 person licensed under Chapter 301,
 Occupations Code.
 (b)  Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (g), 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 at the school for more than 30 consecutive
 instructional days during the same school year shall provide
 written notice of the absence 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 all regular student instructional hours at the school
 during the regular school day are covered by the assignment of at
 least one nurse.
 (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
 or the equivalent of a full-time nurse assigned to be present at the
 school.
 (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)  This section does not apply to a school district or
 open-enrollment charter school with a student enrollment of less
 than 10,000 students.
 SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
 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, 2023.