73R1802 MLR-D
          By Van de Putte, Danburg, et al.                      H.B. No. 2581
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to school-based health care.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Chapter 45 to read as follows:
    1-6                 CHAPTER 45.  SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE
    1-7        Sec. 45.001.  DEFINITION.  In this chapter, "school-based
    1-8  health care" means medical care provided in elementary and
    1-9  secondary schools by licensed health care providers.
   1-10        Sec. 45.002.  PROGRAM.  (a)  The department shall develop a
   1-11  model school-based health care program that may be followed by an
   1-12  elementary or secondary school in providing school-based health
   1-13  care for students enrolled in the school and for children of
   1-14  students.
   1-15        (b)  The department shall provide school districts and
   1-16  communities with the model program to help establish school-based
   1-17  health care.
   1-18        (c)  The program must include a consent to treatment form
   1-19  that meets the requirements of Chapter 35, Family Code.
   1-20        (d)  In developing the program, the department shall
   1-21  emphasize:
   1-22              (1)  strong community involvement that includes
   1-23  parents, health care providers, educators, students, and spiritual
   1-24  and secular leaders of the community; and
    2-1              (2)  that family and personal values will be recognized
    2-2  and that the program will be sensitive to those values and to the
    2-3  diversity of the children and families to be served by the program.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.