By: Madla S.B. No. 345 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the provision of health services in public schools. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-4 amended by adding Section 21.938 to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 21.938. PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES. (a) The Central 1-6 Education Agency, with the advice of the Texas Department of Health 1-7 and the advisory committee appointed under Subsection (b) of this 1-8 section, shall adopt advisory guidelines for the provision of 1-9 health services to students by a school district. The advisory 1-10 guidelines must address: 1-11 (1) legal considerations involved in the provision of 1-12 health services, including compliance with statutes and rules 1-13 governing the practice of medicine, professional nursing, and 1-14 pharmacy and applicable public health statutes and rules; 1-15 (2) staffing and personnel requirements; 1-16 (3) the types of students, including those with 1-17 disabilities, to whom health services may be provided and how 1-18 special needs of students may be met; 1-19 (4) coordination of school health services with other 1-20 student services and related instructional programs; 1-21 (5) coordination of school health services with health 1-22 resources in the community; 1-23 (6) performance criteria for evaluating the adequacy 1-24 of school health programs; and 2-1 (7) other issues the agency determines appropriate. 2-2 (b) The commissioner of education and the commissioner of 2-3 health shall appoint an advisory committee to assist in developing 2-4 the advisory guidelines. The committee must include 2-5 representatives of organizations that represent nursing interests, 2-6 school districts, school administrators, classroom teachers, 2-7 parents of students, child advocacy interests, and public health 2-8 interests. A member of the advisory committee may not receive 2-9 compensation for serving on the committee and is not entitled to 2-10 reimbursement for expenses while serving on the committee. 2-11 (c) The commissioner of education shall conduct an annual 2-12 survey of school districts regarding the extent to which districts 2-13 are providing school health services in accordance with the 2-14 advisory guidelines. 2-15 (d) In this section, "advisory guidelines" means standards, 2-16 practices, or procedures that are recommended for use by school 2-17 districts. 2-18 SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 1994, the Central 2-19 Education Agency shall finally adopt school health services 2-20 advisory guidelines as provided by Section 21.938, Education Code, 2-21 as added by this Act. Not later than October 1, 1994, the 2-22 commissioner of education shall survey school districts to 2-23 determine the extent to which districts are providing school health 2-24 services in accordance with the advisory guidelines as provided by 2-25 Section 21.938, Education Code, as added by this Act. The 2-26 commissioner of education shall report to the 74th Legislature in 2-27 January, 1995, on the advisory guidelines adopted under Section 3-1 21.938, Education Code, as added by this Act, the results of the 3-2 commissioner's survey, and recommendations for legislation relating 3-3 to school health services. 3-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 3-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.