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From the ECS State Policy Database
2001 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2001. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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- Health
CAChaptered by Secretary of State 10/2001P-12Chapter No.656, Enacts the California Mercury Reduction Act of 2001. Prohibits any person, on and after a certain date, from selling at retail or supplying a mercury fever thermometer, as defined, to a consumer or patient in the State, except by a prescription. Prohibits any school from purchasing, for use in the classroom, specified devices and materials containing mercury, except measuring devices for use in school laboratories.
Title: S.B. 633
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 09/2001P-12Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health Services, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Office of Health Hazard Assessment to study and report to the Legislature on the use of toxic substances as part of educational instruction that are listed in the Science Safety Handbook for Public Schools as carcinogenic or mutagenic or that are identified as having chemical risks that outweigh educational benefits.
Title: S.B. 286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 09/2001P-12Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction conduct a study of school districts throughout the State to examine the lack of pupil locker space on school campuses, the weight of hardcover textbooks, any a correlation between pupils carrying heavy instructional materials in backpacks and spinal damage. Appropriates funds for the study.
Title: A.B. 1030
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 07/2001P-12Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE for concurrence., Authorizes designated school personnel, during the regular school day, to assist a pupil to take or apply medication for which a prescription is not required if the school district receives a written statement from the parent or guardian. Provides that the medication may only be taken or applied in accordance with the original package instructions. Provides that the school personnel contact the pupil's parent or guardian and the school nurse if he/she decides not to assist the pupil.
Title: A.B. 1061
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

RISigned into law 07/2001P-12Defines school-based health centers as those located in elementary or secondary schools that deliver primary and preventive health care services to students on site; includes school-based health centers in the definition of health care facility with respect to the licensing requirements.
Title: H.B. 5976
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CTSigned into law 06/2001Postsec.Requires meningitis vaccinations of college students living in on-campus housing.
Title: H.B. 5675
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ILSigned into law 06/2001P-12Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act; provides that a school board shall encourage that all teachers and other school personnel acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer life-saving techniques; allows the school board to use the services of non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other personnel.
Title: H.B. 3137
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ILSigned into law 06/2001P-12Public Act No. 92-402., Requires a school board to permit self administration by a pupil of prescribed asthma medication; requires the parents of the pupil provide to the school written authorization of the self administration and provide the school board written certification by the pupil's supervising physician or advanced practice registered nurse that the pupil is capable of self administration of medication; adds an exception for willful and wanton conduct to the liability provisions.
Title: S.B. 979
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

LASigned into law 06/2001P-12Establishes the Medicaid Trust Fund For School-Based Services.
Title: S.B. 757
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MESigned into law 06/2001P-12Public Law No. 447., (LD 1214)Encourages the use of locally grown foods in school food services programs; provides that the State will match a portion of the monies a school administrative unit spends on local produce for food service programs; specifies that such food be produce or minimally processed food purchased from a farmer or farm coop.
Title: S.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NHSigned into law 06/2001P-12Relates to the duties of a school nurse and school foods and nutrition programs; repeals the statutory provision requiring children to be examined for tuberculosis prior to school entrance; repeals the statutory provision requiring a local school board to maintain yearly statistics on the age, height, weight and grade for each pupil in the school; provides that in a medical emergency, a school nurse shall be permitted, without a doctor's order or parental permission, to administer oxygen.
Title: S.B. 13
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ORSigned into law 06/2001P-12Directs school districts to require students in grades 7 through 12 who participate in sports to receive physical examination.
Title: S.B. 160
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ORSigned into law 06/2001P-12Directs Department of Education to conduct annual survey on number of Oregon children with diabetes; directs physicians to report to Health Division cases of diabetes among Oregon children.
Title: S.B. 769
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

TXSigned into law 06/2001P-12Relates to cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction of public school students.
Title: H.B. 821
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

DESigned into law 05/2001P-12Relates to administration of medications on school field trips; permits educators on a school field trip to assist with medications such as oral, topical, or inhalant medications; includes inhalers, antibiotics, anti-convulsants and emergency medications such as epinephrine for allergic reactions.
Title: S.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

HISigned into law 05/2001P-12Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for full time registered nurses for the State's public schools and for a grant to the Organ Donor Center.
Title: H.B. 284
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ILSigned into law 05/2001Postsec.Relates to the governance of the public universities in Illinois; provides that at the beginning of each semester, the university shall inform incoming freshmen and transfer students and the students' parents or guardian about meningitis and its transmission; requires the university to require meningitis vaccination, except for students who have received the information concerning meningitis and have rejected the vaccination.
Title: S.B. 168
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

INSigned into law 05/2001P-12Provides that a school corporation's discipline policy must allow a student with a chronic disease or medical condition to possess and self-administer medication while the student is on school grounds or off school grounds at a school activity, function, or event if the student's parent files an annual authorization that includes a certification from the student's physician for the student to self-administer the medication.
Title: S.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

INSigned into law 05/2001P-12Prohibits the sale and distribution of mercury-added novelties after 7/1/2003; limits the circumstances under which a mercury fever thermometer may be sold or supplied to an individual after 7/1/2003; restricts a public or nonpublic school from using or purchasing a mercury commodity, mercury compounds, or mercury-added instructional equipment and materials after 7/1/2003; provides that a person may sell or provide a mercury commodity only if that person meets certain conditions.
Title: H.B. 1901
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MESigned into law 05/2001P-12(LD 1563)Amends immunization requirements for school children and children in child care to ensure consistent wording and requirements for the parents of children seeking to exempt their child from 1 or more immunization; shifts the specific disease and vaccine-specific requirements to rulemaking instead of statute.
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MTSigned into law 05/2001P-12Provides start-up costs for school districts to establish school breakfast programs.
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NCSigned into law 05/2001P-12Modifies the health certificate requirements for public school employees to include tuberculosis or any physical or mental disease.
Title: H.B. 608
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NVSigned into law 05/2001P-12Requires that nursing services in all school districts must be provided under the direction and supervision of a chief nurse; prescribes the qualifications of a chief nurse; revises provisions relating to nursing services provided to certain pupils; provides other matters properly relating thereto.
Title: A.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ORSigned into law 05/2001P-12Expands civil and criminal immunity for school personnel who administer medication to students.
Title: H.B. 2682
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

TNSigned into law 05/2001P-12Adds vision screening to requirements for admission to public school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool and child care; encourages parents to also obtain child's vision screening within six months of 3rd grade. (Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 50)
Title: S.B. 304
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

TXSigned into law 05/2001P-12The state board by rule may require a student enrolled in kindergarten or a grade level below grade 7in an elementary school setting to participate in daily physical activity as part of a school district's physical education curriculum or through structured activity during a school campus's daily recess, except that the board may not require more than 30 minutes of daily physical activity. If the board adopts rules under this subsection, the board must provide for an exemption for a student who is unable to participate in daily physical activity because of illness or disability. Requires local boards to establish a local school health education advisory council to assist the district in ensuring that local community values are reflected in the district's health education instruction. The state agency must make available to each school district a coordinated health program designed to prevent obesity, cardiovascular disease, and Type II diabetes in elementary school students and the school districts are required to implement the coordinated health program.
Title: S.B. 19
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

WAVetoed 05/2001P-12Relates to the procedures for posting and notification of pesticide applications at schools and licensed day care centers. "School facility" means any facility used for licensed day care center purposes or for the purposes of a public kindergarten or public elementary or secondary school. School facility includes the buildings or structures, playgrounds, landscape areas, athletic fields, school vehicles, or any other area of school property. A school, nursery school, or licensed day care shall at the time of the application place a marker at each primary point of entry to the school grounds. School must also provide written notification annually or upon enrollment to parents or guardians of students and employees describing the school's pest control policies and methods, including the posting and notification requirements of the bill.
Title: S.B. 5533
Source: Washington Legislative Web Site

ARSigned into law 04/2001P-12Requires the department of health to use 40% of the funds appropriated for in-school tobacco prevention and cessation programs on state-wide implementation of the kids-for-health program.
Title: H.B. 2528
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ARSigned into law 04/2001P-12Mandates every public educational institution in this state to offer health related education including physical education training and instruction.
Title: H.B. 2514
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NDSigned into law 04/2001P-12Establishes a youth smoking prevention commission; provides a community health grant program.
Title: S.B. 2380
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ALSigned into law 03/2001P-12Prohibits the location of a petroleum product tank farm within one and one-half miles of any existing school; provides for the site to be approved by resolution of the local governing body.
Title: H.B. 363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

UTSigned into law 03/2001P-12Provides that the State Board of Education shall approve instructional materials for use in health, physiology, hygiene, and prevention of communicable disease curricula that local school boards may choose to adopt; provides local schools with an option of using other instructional materials for the curricula consistent with state law and board rules emphasizing abstinence before marriage and fidelity after marriage.
Title: S.B. 75
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

VASigned into law 03/2001Postsec.Relates to immunizations for full time four year students prior to enrollment in public institutions of higher learning against meningococcal disease; provides for a waiver; states the State Council of Higher Education must, with the Board and Commissioner of Health, encourage private collages to develop procedures for providing information on the risks of such disease and the availability of vaccines against such disease; states religious exemptions on other immunizations shall apply.
Title: H.B. 2762
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NJSigned into law 02/2001P-12 Revises procedure for self-administration by pupils of medication for asthma or a potentially life-threatening illness; replaces liability requirements by a grant of immunity for those acting in good faith in accordance with statutes; allows pupil who is allowed to self-administer medication to carry an inhaler, provided pupil does not endanger himself or others via misuse; requires public schools to have and maintain an accessible nebulizer; provides training for school nurses or personnel.
Title: S.B. 1372
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

VASigned into law 02/2001P-12Adds a physician assistant who is acting under the supervision of a licensed physician to the list of those practitioners who are qualified to perform a comprehensive physical exam of students prior to their entering kindergarten or elementary school.
Title: S.B. 1201
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

WYSigned into law 02/2001P-12Relates to Wyoming Environmental Pesticides Control Act; requires notification of pesticide application in or on school facilities and property; specifies requirements for posting of signs; authorizes school boards to develop policies on pesticide use in or on school facilities.
Title: H.B. 28
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

WYSigned into law 02/2001P-12Requires the establishment of guidelines for the storage and disposal of toxic chemicals at public schools; requires school districts to implement safe storage and disposal standards for toxic chemicals and other hazardous substances.
Title: H.B. 324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

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