Amend HB 1559 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. 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 nurse licensed under Chapter 301, Occupations Code.
(b) 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 on 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.
(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 those nurses' combined presence covers all regular student instructional hours at a campus during the regular school day.
(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 assigned to be present on the campus.
(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) A school district that is located in a county with a population of less than 100,000 is not required to provide the notice required by this section.