Florida Senate - 2014                                    SB 1264
       
       
        
       By Senator Sobel
       
       
       
       
       
       33-01369A-14                                          20141264__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the school health services program;
    3         amending s. 381.0056, F.S.; requiring each county
    4         health department to develop a school-located
    5         influenza vaccination program, subject to available
    6         funds; providing the purpose of the program;
    7         authorizing a county health department to contract
    8         with local health care practitioners or a private
    9         entity to administer the program; requiring a part
   10         time school staff person to facilitate the program at
   11         each school; providing for training, support, and
   12         compensation of such person; requiring an evaluation
   13         of the program; requiring evaluation data to be
   14         provided to each county health department, the
   15         Department of Health, and the public; providing an
   16         effective date.
   17          
   18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   19  
   20         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 381.0056, Florida
   21  Statutes, is amended to read:
   22         381.0056 School health services program.—
   23         (4)(a) Each county health department shall develop, jointly
   24  with the district school board and the local school health
   25  advisory committee, a school health services plan; and the plan
   26  must include, at a minimum, provisions for:
   27         1. Health appraisal;
   28         2. Records review;
   29         3. Nurse assessment;
   30         4. Nutrition assessment;
   31         5. A preventive dental program;
   32         6. Vision screening;
   33         7. Hearing screening;
   34         8. Scoliosis screening;
   35         9. Growth and development screening;
   36         10. Health counseling;
   37         11. A school-located influenza vaccination program pursuant
   38  to paragraph (c);
   39         12.11. Referral and followup of suspected or confirmed
   40  health problems by the local county health department;
   41         13.12. Meeting emergency health needs in each school;
   42         14.13. County health department personnel to assist school
   43  personnel in health education curriculum development;
   44         15.14. Referral of students to appropriate health
   45  treatment, in cooperation with the private health community
   46  whenever possible;
   47         16.15. Consultation with a student’s parent or guardian
   48  regarding the need for health attention by the family physician,
   49  dentist, or other specialist when definitive diagnosis or
   50  treatment is indicated;
   51         17.16. Maintenance of records on incidents of health
   52  problems, corrective measures taken, and such other information
   53  as may be needed to plan and evaluate health programs; except,
   54  however, that provisions in the plan for the maintenance of
   55  health records of individual students must be in accordance with
   56  s. 1002.22;
   57         18.17. Health information that which will be provided by
   58  the school health nurses, as when necessary, regarding the
   59  placement of students in exceptional student programs and the
   60  reevaluation at periodic intervals of students placed in such
   61  programs; and
   62         19.18. Notification to the local nonpublic schools of the
   63  school health services program and the opportunity for
   64  representatives of the local nonpublic schools to participate in
   65  the development of the cooperative health services plan.
   66         (b) Each school health advisory committee must, at a
   67  minimum, include members who represent the eight component areas
   68  of the Coordinated School Health model as defined by the Centers
   69  for Disease Control and Prevention. School health advisory
   70  committees are encouraged to address the eight components of the
   71  Coordinated School Health model in the school district’s school
   72  wellness policy pursuant to s. 1003.453.
   73         (c) Each county health department shall, subject to
   74  availability of funds, develop a school-located influenza
   75  vaccination program. The purpose of the program is to offer all
   76  public and nonpublic school children an influenza vaccination at
   77  no cost to their families.
   78         1. A county health department may contract with local
   79  health care practitioners or a private entity to administer the
   80  program.
   81         2. Each school shall appoint a part-time school staff
   82  person as an influenza immunization coordinator to facilitate
   83  the program. The county health department shall train, support,
   84  and compensate such person.
   85         3. The University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute
   86  shall provide training and support for the influenza
   87  immunization coordinators and conduct a formative evaluation to
   88  monitor immunization rates and a summative evaluation to
   89  determine the impact of the program on influenza illness in
   90  children and adults in the community. The institute shall
   91  provide a summary of the evaluation data to each county health
   92  department, the department, and the public.
   93         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.