The caption promises notice from any public school without a nurse, but this exemption removes every school in a district or charter with fewer than 10,000 students. The caption never mentions that size limit.
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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.
No nurse for 30 straight instructional days? Parents get notice, if the district is big enough.
The bill requires a public school, including a charter school, to send parents written notice when the school goes more than 30 straight instructional days without a full-time nurse or the equivalent. The principal must send the notice within 30 instructional days, make a good faith effort to provide it in a second language when needed, keep a copy, and may meet the duty by posting it on the school website. Districts and charter schools with fewer than 10,000 students are exempt, so only parents in larger systems get the notice, starting with the 2025-2026 school year.
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Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 193 (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.BACK FROM THE DEAD. Same text as a bill filed before that died: 88R SB 193 (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Nov 12, 2024 and referred to the Senate Education K-16 committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
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.
WHAT IT DOES
No nurse for 30 straight instructional days? Parents get notice, if the district is big enough.
The bill requires a public school, including a charter school, to send parents written notice when the school goes more than 30 straight instructional days without a full-time nurse or the equivalent. The principal must send the notice within 30 instructional days, make a good faith effort to provide it in a second language when needed, keep a copy, and may meet the duty by posting it on the school website. Districts and charter schools with fewer than 10,000 students are exempt, so only parents in larger systems get the notice, starting with the 2025-2026 school year.
The caption promises notice from any public school without a nurse, but this exemption removes every school in a district or charter with fewer than 10,000 students. The caption never mentions that size limit.
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.
Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel
Minors--Health & Safety
NURSES & NURSE AIDES
PARENTAL NOTIFICATION
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The text as introduced · 440 words
89R478 AMF-F
By: Miles, Cook
S.B. No. 282
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 2025-2026
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, 2025.