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Amend SB 530 on third reading by adding the following
appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering the
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 38.021 to read as follows:
Sec. 38.021. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING SCHOOL
NURSES. (a) In order to promote the health and physical fitness of
public school students by providing relevant information to
parents, a public school that does not have a full-time school nurse
assigned to the campus for more than 30 consecutive instructional
days during the same school year shall provide written notice of the
absence of a nurse to the parent of or other person standing in
parental relation to each student enrolled in the school.
(b) The principal of the school shall provide the notice
required by Subsection (a) not later than the 30th instructional
day after the first day the school does not have a full-time school
nurse assigned to the campus.
(c) 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.