SJR44 Summary

• Commends Alabama School Health Services and individual school nurses for their dedication to student health care in schools.

• Recognizes approximately 2,000 part-time and full-time licensed nurses serving almost 750,000 children in Alabama schools, providing care ranging from health advice to emergency services.

• Highlights specific student populations requiring school nursing care: approximately 30,000 students requiring non-emergency medications, over 70,000 with asthma medication needs, over 60,000 requiring allergy or diabetes medications, approximately 122,000 with Attention Deficit Disorder medications, and approximately 5,000 with seizure disorders.

• Directs that a copy of this resolution be provided to Alabama School Health Services as recognition of their commitment to ensuring the health and safety of school children in the state.

• Senate adopted March 22, 2016; House adopted April 5, 2016.