Florida Senate - 2015 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 7070
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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The Committee on Judiciary (Bean) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 1335 and 1336
4 insert:
5 Section 8. Subsection (2) and paragraph (a) of subsection
6 (4) of section 381.0056, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
7 381.0056 School health services program.—
8 (2) As used in this section, the term:
9 (a) “Emergency health needs” means onsite evaluation,
10 management, and aid for illness or injury pending the student’s
11 return to the classroom or release to a parent, guardian,
12 designated friend, law enforcement officer, or designated health
13 care provider.
14 (b) “Entity” or “health care entity” means a unit of local
15 government or a political subdivision of the state; a hospital
16 licensed under chapter 395; a health maintenance organization
17 certified under chapter 641; a health insurer authorized under
18 the Florida Insurance Code; a community health center; a migrant
19 health center; a federally qualified health center; an
20 organization that meets the requirements for nonprofit status
21 under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; a private
22 industry or business; or a philanthropic foundation that agrees
23 to participate in a public-private partnership with a county
24 health department, local school district, or school in the
25 delivery of school health services, and agrees to the terms and
26 conditions for the delivery of such services as required by this
27 section and as documented in the local school health services
28 plan.
29 (c) “Invasive screening” means any screening procedure in
30 which the skin or any body orifice is penetrated.
31 (d) “Physical examination” means a thorough evaluation of
32 the health status of an individual.
33 (e) “School health services plan” means the document that
34 describes the services to be provided, the responsibility for
35 provision of the services, the anticipated expenditures to
36 provide the services, and evidence of cooperative planning by
37 local school districts and county health departments.
38 (f) “Screening” means presumptive identification of unknown
39 or unrecognized diseases or defects by the application of tests
40 that can be given with ease and rapidity to apparently healthy
41 persons.
42 (4)(a) Each county health department shall develop, jointly
43 with the district school board and the local school health
44 advisory committee, a school health services plan.; and The plan
45 must include, at a minimum, provisions for all of the following:
46 1. Health appraisal;
47 2. Records review;
48 3. Nurse assessment;
49 4. Nutrition assessment;
50 5. A preventive dental program;
51 6. Vision screening;
52 7. Hearing screening;
53 8. Scoliosis screening;
54 9. Growth and development screening;
55 10. Health counseling;
56 11. Referral and followup of suspected or confirmed health
57 problems by the local county health department;
58 12. Meeting emergency health needs in each school;
59 13. County health department personnel to assist school
60 personnel in health education curriculum development;
61 14. Referral of students to appropriate health treatment,
62 in cooperation with the private health community whenever
63 possible;
64 15. Consultation with a student’s parent or guardian
65 regarding the need for health attention by the family physician,
66 dentist, or other specialist when definitive diagnosis or
67 treatment is indicated;
68 16. Maintenance of records on incidents of health problems,
69 corrective measures taken, and such other information as may be
70 needed to plan and evaluate health programs; except, however,
71 that provisions in the plan for maintenance of health records of
72 individual students must be in accordance with s. 1002.22;
73 17. Health information which will be provided by the school
74 health nurses, when necessary, regarding the placement of
75 students in exceptional student programs and the reevaluation at
76 periodic intervals of students placed in such programs; and
77 18. Notification to the local nonpublic schools of the
78 school health services program and the opportunity for
79 representatives of the local nonpublic schools to participate in
80 the development of the cooperative health services plan.
81 19. Immediate notification to a student’s parent, guardian,
82 or caregiver if the student is removed from school, school
83 transportation, or a school-sponsored activity and taken to a
84 receiving facility for an involuntary examination pursuant to s.
85 394.463, including any requirements established under ss.
86 1002.20(3) and 1002.33(9), as applicable.
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88 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
89 And the title is amended as follows:
90 Delete line 44
91 and insert:
92 advocates; amending s. 381.0056, F.S.; revising the
93 definition of the term “emergency health needs”;
94 requiring school health services plans to include
95 notification requirements when a student is removed
96 from school, school transportation, or a school
97 sponsored activity for involuntary examination;
98 amending s. 394.4599, F.S.; adding health