Senate Bill 0148e2

    SB 148                                        Second Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to school-entry health and

  3         vision examinations; amending s. 232.0315,

  4         F.S.; requiring children who enter public or

  5         nonpublic schools in this state to present

  6         evidence of having passed a vision screening or

  7         examination; deleting provisions relating to

  8         rulemaking authority with respect to medical

  9         examinations; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Section 232.0315, Florida Statutes, is

14  amended to read:

15         232.0315  School-entry health examinations.--

16         (1)  The school board of each district and the

17  governing authority of each nonpublic school shall require

18  that each child who is entitled to admittance to

19  prekindergarten or kindergarten, or is entitled to any other

20  initial entrance into a public or nonpublic school in this

21  state, present a certification of a school-entry health

22  examination, which must include a vision screening or

23  examination, performed within 1 year prior to enrollment in

24  school.  The school board of each district, and the governing

25  authority of each nonpublic school, may establish a policy

26  which permits a student up to 30 school days to present a

27  certification of a school-entry health examination.  Any

28  school board that which establishes such a policy shall

29  include provisions in its local school health services plan to

30  assist students in obtaining the health and vision

31  examinations.  However, any child shall be exempt from the


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    SB 148                                        Second Engrossed



  1  examinations requirement of a health examination upon written

  2  request of the parent or guardian of such child stating

  3  objections to such examination on religious grounds.

  4         (2)  The Department of Education, subject to the

  5  concurrence of the Department of Health Department of Health

  6  and Rehabilitative Services, shall adopt rules to govern

  7  medical examinations performed under this section.

  8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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