HSB 10 (LSB 1676YC (5) 91)

HOUSE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BILL BY CHAIRPERSON NORDMAN)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to persons who may provide health services to students enrolled in a school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 136A.5B, subsection 3, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  The department shall publish the informational materials on its internet site and shall specifically make the informational materials available electronically to child care facilities and child care homes as defined in section 237A.1, school nurses, athletic trainers employed by school districts, hospitals, attending health care providers, and other health care providers offering care to pregnant women and infants.
    Sec. 2.  Section 256.11, subsection 9B, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   9B.  a.  Beginning July 1, 2007 2025, each school district shall have employ a school nurse or an athletic trainer to provide health services to its students. Each school district shall work toward the goal of having employing one school nurse or athletic trainer for every seven hundred fifty students enrolled in the school district.
   b.  For purposes of this subsection, “school nurse”:
   (1)  “Athletic trainer” means a person licensed under chapter 152D.
   (2)  “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.
    Sec. 3.  Section 257.31, subsection 5, paragraph m, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   m.  The addition of one or more teacher librarians pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 9, one or more guidance counselors pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 9A, or one or more school nurses or athletic trainers pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 9B.
    Sec. 4.  Section 280.16, subsection 6, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  Information provided to the school under subsection 2 shall be kept on file in the office of the school nurse or athletic trainer or, in the absence of a school nurse or athletic trainer, the school’s administrator.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to persons who may provide health services to students enrolled in a school district. Under current law, school districts are required to have a school nurse to provide health services to students. The bill modifies this provision to provide that, beginning July 1, 2025, school districts are required to employ either a school nurse or an athletic trainer licensed under Code chapter 152D (athletic training) to provide health services to students. The bill makes conforming changes to Code sections 136A.5B (cytomegalovirus public health initiative), 257.31 (duties of the school budget review committee), and 280.16 (self-administration of respiratory distress, asthma, or other airway constricting disease medication, epinephrine auto-injectors, bronchodilator canisters, or bronchodilator canisters and spacers), to incorporate athletic trainers who are employed by school districts.