House File 270 - Introduced



                                      HOUSE FILE       
                                      BY  FOEGE

                                      (COMPANION TO LSB 1802SS
                                       BY CONNOLLY)


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the employment of school nurses by school
  2    districts and providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1802HH 82
  5 kh/gg/14

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  279.65  SCHOOL NURSES.
  1  2    1.  The board of directors of a school district shall
  1  3 employ not less than one school nurse for every seven hundred
  1  4 fifty students enrolled in the school district to provide
  1  5 health services to such students.  If the total school
  1  6 district enrollment is less than seven hundred fifty students,
  1  7 the board of directors of the school district shall employ a
  1  8 school nurse on a less than full=time basis for an amount of
  1  9 time which shall be prorated.
  1 10    2.  For purposes of this section, "school nurse" means a
  1 11 person who holds a letter of authorization or statement of
  1 12 professional recognition issued by the board of educational
  1 13 examiners under chapter 272.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  FUTURE EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect July
  1 15 1, 2011.
  1 16    Sec. 3.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  1 17 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  1 18 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  1 19 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  1 20 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  1 21 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  1 22 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section
  1 23 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
  1 24 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
  1 25 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27    This bill requires a school district to employ one school
  1 28 nurse for every 750 students enrolled in the school district
  1 29 or to employ a nurse on less than a full=time prorated basis
  1 30 if the school district has a total enrollment of less than 750
  1 31 students.
  1 32    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  1 33 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of any
  1 34 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  1 35 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2  1 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  2  2 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
  2  3 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
  2  4 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
  2  5 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
  2  6 state mandates included in the bill.
  2  7    The bill takes effect July 1, 2011.
  2  8 LSB 1802HH 82
  2  9 kh:nh/gg/14