| 1 | Representative(s) Sobel offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove line(s) 107-167 and insert: |
| 5 | Section 3. Subsections (5), (6), and (7) of section |
| 6 | 381.0056, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: |
| 7 | 381.0056 School health services program.-- |
| 8 | (5)(a) Each county health department shall develop, |
| 9 | jointly with the district school board and the local school |
| 10 | health advisory committee, a school health services plan; and |
| 11 | the plan must shall include, at a minimum, provisions for: |
| 12 | 1.(a) Health appraisal; |
| 13 | 2.(b) Records review; |
| 14 | 3.(c) Nurse assessment; |
| 15 | 4.(d) Nutrition assessment; |
| 16 | 5.(e) A preventive dental program; |
| 17 | 6.(f) Vision screening; |
| 18 | 7.(g) Hearing screening; |
| 19 | 8.(h) Scoliosis screening; |
| 20 | 9.(i) Growth and development screening; |
| 21 | 10.(j) Health counseling; |
| 22 | 11.(k) Referral and followup of suspected or confirmed |
| 23 | health problems by the local county health department; |
| 24 | 12.(l) Meeting emergency health needs in each school; |
| 25 | 13.(m) County health department personnel to assist school |
| 26 | personnel in health education curriculum development; |
| 27 | 14.(n) Referral of students to appropriate health |
| 28 | treatment, in cooperation with the private health community |
| 29 | whenever possible; |
| 30 | 15.(o) Consultation with a student's parent or guardian |
| 31 | regarding the need for health attention by the family physician, |
| 32 | dentist, or other specialist when definitive diagnosis or |
| 33 | treatment is indicated; |
| 34 | 16.(p) Maintenance of records on incidents of health |
| 35 | problems, corrective measures taken, and such other information |
| 36 | as may be needed to plan and evaluate health programs; except, |
| 37 | however, that provisions in the plan for maintenance of health |
| 38 | records of individual students must be in accordance with s. |
| 39 | 1002.22; |
| 40 | 17.(q) Health information which will be provided by the |
| 41 | school health nurses, when necessary, regarding the placement of |
| 42 | students in exceptional student programs and the reevaluation at |
| 43 | periodic intervals of students placed in such programs; and |
| 44 | 18.(r) Notification to the local nonpublic schools of the |
| 45 | school health services program and the opportunity for |
| 46 | representatives of the local nonpublic schools to participate in |
| 47 | the development of the cooperative health services plan. |
| 48 | (b) Each school health advisory committee must, at a |
| 49 | minimum, include members who represent the eight component areas |
| 50 | of the Coordinated School Health model as defined by the Centers |
| 51 | for Disease Control and Prevention. School health advisory |
| 52 | committees are encouraged to address the eight components of the |
| 53 | Coordinated School Health model in the school district's school |
| 54 | wellness policy pursuant to s. 1003.453. |
| 55 | (6) A nonpublic school may request to participate in the |
| 56 | school health services program. A nonpublic school voluntarily |
| 57 | participating in the school health services program shall: |
| 58 | (a) Cooperate with the county health department and |
| 59 | district school board in the development of the cooperative |
| 60 | health services plan; |
| 61 | (b) Make available adequate physical facilities for health |
| 62 | services; |
| 63 | (c) Provide inservice health training to school personnel; |
| 64 | (d) Cooperate with public health personnel in the |
| 65 | implementation of the school health services plan; |
| 66 | (e) Be subject to health service program reviews by the |
| 67 | Department of Health and the Department of Education; and |
| 68 | (f) At the beginning of each school year, provide parents |
| 69 | and guardians with information concerning ways that they can |
| 70 | help their children to be physically active and to eat healthful |
| 71 | foods; and |
| 72 | (g)(f) At the beginning of each school year, inform |
| 73 | parents or guardians in writing that their children who are |
| 74 | students in the school will receive specified health services as |
| 75 | provided for in the district health services plan. A student |
| 76 | will be exempt from any of these services if his or her parent |
| 77 | or guardian requests such exemption in writing. This paragraph |
| 78 | shall not be construed to authorize invasive screening; if there |
| 79 | is a need for such procedure, the consent of the student's |
| 80 | parent or guardian shall be obtained in writing prior to |
| 81 | performing the screening. However, the laws and rules relating |
| 82 | to contagious or communicable diseases and sanitary matters |
| 83 | shall not be violated. |
| 84 | (7) The district school board shall: |
| 85 | (a) Include health services and health education as part |
| 86 | of the comprehensive plan for the school district; |
| 87 | (b) Provide inservice health training for school |
| 88 | personnel; |
| 89 | (c) Make available adequate physical facilities for health |
| 90 | services; and |
| 91 | (d) At the beginning of each school year, provide parents |
| 92 | and guardians with information concerning ways that they can |
| 93 | help their children to be physically active and to eat healthful |
| 94 | foods; and |
| 95 | (e)(d) At the beginning of each school year, inform |
| 96 | parents or guardians in writing that their children who are |
| 97 | students in the district schools will receive specified health |
| 98 | services as provided for in the district health services plan. A |
| 99 | student will be exempt from any of these services if his or her |
| 100 | parent or guardian requests such exemption in writing. This |
| 101 | paragraph shall not be construed to authorize invasive |
| 102 | screening; if there is a need for such procedure, the consent of |
| 103 | the student's parent or guardian shall be obtained in writing |
| 104 | prior to performing the screening. However, the laws and rules |
| 105 | relating to contagious or communicable diseases and sanitary |
| 106 | matters shall not be violated. |
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| 109 | Remove line(s) 24-28 and insert: |
| 110 | Services Act; providing requirements relating to membership of |
| 111 | school health advisory committees; encouraging the committees to |
| 112 | address specified matters; requiring nonpublic schools |
| 113 | participating in the school health services program and district |
| 114 | school boards to annually provide certain information to |
| 115 | students' parents and guardians; providing an effective date. |