Senate Study Bill 1261 



                                      SENATE FILE       
                                      BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                           EDUCATION BILL REQUESTED
                                           BY CONNOLLY)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House, 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 1802SS 82
  5 kh/gg/14

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  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, at a
  1  8 minimum, employ a school nurse on a less than full=time basis
  1  9 for an amount of time which shall be prorated as determined by
  1 10 the state board of education by rule.
  1 11    2.  For purposes of this section, "school nurse" means a
  1 12 person who holds a letter of authorization or statement of
  1 13 professional recognition issued by the board of educational
  1 14 examiners under chapter 272.
  1 15    Sec. 2.  FUTURE EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect July
  1 16 1, 2011.
  1 17    Sec. 3.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  1 18 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  1 19 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  1 20 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  1 21 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  1 22 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  1 23 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section
  1 24 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
  1 25 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
  1 26 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill requires a school district to employ one school
  1 29 nurse for every 750 students enrolled in the school district
  1 30 or to, at a minimum, employ a nurse on less than a full=time
  1 31 prorated basis if the school district has a total enrollment
  1 32 of less than 750 students.  The state board is directed to
  1 33 determine by rule the minimum amount of time a school district
  1 34 with an enrollment of less than 750 students must employ a
  1 35 school nurse.
  2  1    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  2  2 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of any
  2  3 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  2  4 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2  5 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  2  6 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
  2  7 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
  2  8 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
  2  9 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
  2 10 state mandates included in the bill.
  2 11    The bill takes effect July 1, 2011.
  2 12 LSB 1802SS 82
  2 13 kh:nh/gg/14.1