GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 920

Short Title:  Fund/School Nurses.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Hobbs, Jordan, Hoyle, Odom, Conder, Kerr, Winner, Dannelly, Plexico, Ballance, Lucas, and Rand.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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May 1, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO STATE AID TO LOCAL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS FOR SCHOOL NURSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a)	There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of seven million eight hundred sixty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,868,800) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of seven million eight hundred sixty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,868,800) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for school nurses.  The State Board of Education shall allocate these funds on the basis of one position for each 3,000 students in a local school administrative unit, with a minimum of one position per county.  The State Board of Education shall make these funds available to a local school administrative unit only after the unit has developed a School Health Plan for the use of the funds in collaboration with the local health department and local health care providers.
(b)	Local school administrative units may use these funds to contract with local health departments or other public or private providers for school nursing services.
(c)	School nurses in these positions, or contract providers, shall provide for:
(1)	Identification and management of children with special needs;
(2)	Emergency care for illness and injury;
(3)	Supervision of prescribed treatments and administration of medicines; and
(4)	Other nursing services included in the School Health Plan.
These positions shall not be used for any other purposes.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.