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NC S598

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

4/5/2023

Primary Sponsor

Joyce Waddell

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Origin

Senate

2023-2024 Session

AI Summary

  • Requires local school boards to ensure at least one school nurse is available to students during the instructional day in each school, beginning with the 2023-2024 school year.

  • Permits boards to hire nurses directly as full-time or part-time employees, or contract with third parties to provide nursing services.

  • Appropriates $77,000,000 in recurring General Fund dollars to the Department of Public Instruction for the 2023-2024 fiscal year to increase the Instructional Support Allotment for school nurse positions.

  • Specifies that new funding must supplement, not replace, any existing funds already allocated for school nurses.

  • Becomes effective July 1, 2023, with the school nurse requirement applying starting in the 2023-2024 school year.

Legislative Description

Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School

Appropriations; Boards; Budgeting; Education; Education Boards; Elementary Education; Health Services; Kindergarten; Local Gover

Last Action

Re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate

4/6/2023

Committee Referrals

Appropriations/Base Budget4/6/2023
Rules and Operations of the Senate4/6/2023

Full Bill Text

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