H-8246

   Amend Senate File 2196 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, after line 11 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 256.11, subsection 9B, Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   9B.  Beginning July 1, 2007, each school district shall have a school nurse to provide health services to its students. Each school district shall work toward the goal of having one school nurse for every seven hundred fifty students enrolled in the school district. For purposes of this subsection, “school nurse” means a person who holds an endorsement or a statement of professional recognition for school nurses issued by the board of educational examiners under subchapter VII, part 3.  Notwithstanding the requirement of having a school nurse in each school district to provide health services to students as specified in this subsection, on or after July 1, 2024, a school district may utilize an athletic trainer as defined in section 152D.1 to provide such health services, within the athletic trainer’s scope of practice, to the district’s students to meet the specified goal.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, after <of> by inserting <health services in a school including the provision of>
   3.  Title page, line 2, after <exemptions> by inserting <and the provision of health services by each school district>

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LUNDGREN of Dubuque