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House Bill 984 |
House Author: Reyna et al. |
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Effective: 6-18-05 |
Senate Sponsor: Duncan et al. |
House Bill 984 amends the Health and Safety Code to require the development and implementation of a diabetes management and treatment plan for each student who will seek care for diabetes while at school or while participating in a school activity. The bill requires the plan to be developed by the student's parent or guardian and the physician treating the diabetes and submitted to the school for review, and it requires the development of an individualized health care plan to meet the student's unique health care needs in a school setting.
The bill also requires the principal of each school in which a student with diabetes is enrolled to seek school employees who are not health care professionals to serve as unlicensed diabetes care assistants and to ensure that the school has at least one such assistant if there is a full-time nurse at the school or at least three such assistants if there is no full-time nurse, and it establishes specific training requirements for becoming an unlicensed diabetes care assistant. If a school nurse is not assigned to a campus, the bill requires either that the assistant have access to a physician, registered nurse, certified diabetes educator, or licensed dietitian expert in the care of diabetic individuals or that the principal have access to the student's physician. The bill also prohibits a district from restricting the assignment of a student with diabetes to a particular campus on the basis that the campus does not have the required assistants.