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From the ECS State Policy Database
2006 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2006. 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
DEAdopted 12/2006P-12Student Physical Fitness Assessment
Title 14 Sec 503
Requires each local school district and charter school to assess the physical fitness of all students at least once in elementary, in middle and in high school. DELAWARE 1930
http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/500/503.shtml#TopOfPage...

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OHSigned into law 12/2006P-12Prescription Medications
S.B. 164
Permits students of school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to carry epinephrine medication approved by the students' physicians and parents; grants immunity to school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools a...

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CASigned into law 09/2006P-12Information on Diabetes in Schools
A.B. 2226
Requires each school district to provide a type 2 diabetes information sheet developed by the Department of Education to the parent or guardian of incoming 7th grade pupils.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2201-2250/ab_2226_bill_20060913_chaptered.pd...

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CASigned into law 09/2006P-12School Health Centers
A.B. 2560
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a Public School Health Center Support Program to perform a specified functions relating to the establishment, retention or expansion of school health centers in the state, in collaboration with the State ...

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NYSigned into law 09/2006P-12Children's Mental Health Advisory Board
S.B. 6672
Establishes the children's mental health advisory board to promulgate and monitor the implementation of a children's mental health plan. Requires the incorporation of social and emotional development of children into elementary and secondary school educational...

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NYSigned into law 08/2006P-12Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis Booster Vaccinations
S.B. 7421
Requires children born after January 1, 1990 to have booster vaccinations for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis upon entering the 6th grade....

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NYVetoed 08/2006P-12Centers of Excellence in Culturally and Linguistically Competent Mental Health
A.B. 9593
Directs the office of mental health to establish two centers of excellence in culturally competent mental health to investigate and disseminate the best practices for the delivery of culturally competent mental health services to underserved populations affect...

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AZApproved by voters 07/2006P-12Early Childhood Development and Health Initiative
V. 18 (Prop. 203)
(PROPOSITION 203 I-16-2006) Increases funding for early childhood development and health programs. Purpose is to improve quality and increase access to early childhood development activities. Also will increase access to preventative health care programs and ...

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DESigned into law 07/2006P-12Student Physical Fitness Assessments
H.B. 372
Requires the Department of Education to develop a regulation requiring each local school district and charter school to assess the physical fitness of each student at least once at the elementary, middle and high school level. The regulation would also outline...

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DESigned into law 07/2006P-12Physical Education Pilot Program
H.B. 471
Provides for a physical education/physical activity pilot program in at least six of Delaware's elementary, middle or high schools; requires the department to provide technical assistance in the development and any training related to implementation; provides ...

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NCSigned into law 07/2006P-12Schoolchildren's Health Act
H.B. 1502
Enacts the schoolchildren 's health act. Provisions relate to: (1) sealing arsenic-treated wood in playgrounds and testing the soil on school grounds for contamination; (2) reducing students' exposure to diesel emissions from school buses; (3) studying mold an...

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NCSigned into law 07/2006P-12Vision Screening
H.B. 2699
Requires vision screening for children entering kindergarten.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H2699v5.html...

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NYVetoed 07/2006P-12Dental Health Certificates
A.B. 6640
Requires every child enrolling in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or first grade in a public elementary school to present a dental health certificate. Dental health certificates must contain a report of a comprehensive dental examination performed on such child...

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NYSigned into law 07/2006P-12Immunization Against Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
A.B. 8761
Requires immunization against invasive pneumococcal disease of every child in this state born on and after January 1, 2005 beginning with enrollment in any public, private or parochial child caring center, day nursery, day care agency, nursery school, kinderga...

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VARule Adoption 07/2006P-12Standards For Accrediting Public Schools
8 VAC 20-131-10 thru -320 non seq.
Amends regulations establishing standards for accrediting public schools in Virginia. The amendments include additional options for students to meet the requirements for graduation; change the methodology for calculating accreditation ratings; create greater ...

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AKSigned into law 06/2006P-12Recommending or Refusing Psychotropic Drugs
S.B. 48
Prohibits public schools from denying students access to programs or services because a student's parent has refused to place the student on psychotropic medications, get a psychiatric evaluation or seek psychiatric or psychological treatment. Defines what com...

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AZSigned into law 06/2006P-12Physical Education Pilot Program
H.B. 2140
Provides that the department of education shall establish a two-year physical education pilot program consisting of schools and high schools from counties with specified populations and poverty levels; includes charter schools; requires participating schools t...

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DESigned into law 06/2006P-12Health Advisory Council for physical education
S.B. 289
Relates to the creation of a statewide Health Advisory Council, as recommended by the Physical Education Task Force, to provide advice and guidance to the Department of Education regarding current and future physical education and physical activity programs in...

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FLSigned into law 06/2006P-12Lead Poisoning Information
S.B. 1324
Relates to a educational program on lead poisoning prevention and literature on childhood lead poisoning, lead screening of children, lead screening records maintenance, the reporting of cases of lead poisoning, policies and strategies to prevent and treat obe...

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LASigned into law 06/2006P-12Meningococcal Disease
S.B. 448
Requires all city, parish or other local public school boards to provide certain healthcare information on meningococcal disease to parents and guardians. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399132...

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LASigned into law 06/2006Postsec.
Community College
Meningitis Vaccination as Prerequisite for Course Registration
H.B. 154
Requires students admitted to a postsecondary education institution for the first time to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease as a condition of registration for courses at such institution. Requires every public and nonpublic postsecondary education i...

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LASigned into law 06/2006P-12Adoption Awareness
S.B. 111
Requires inclusion of adoption awareness in health course or another course required for high school graduation. Provides that adoption awareness is required instruction in nonpublic secondary schools in a manner that is the sole discretion of the nonpublic se...

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LASigned into law 06/2006Postsec.Meningitis Vaccinations
H.B. 768
Directs the secretary of the department of health and hospitals to establish a priority of cohorts of students to be vaccinated in order to minimize the possibility of an outbreak of meningococcal disease. Provides that the first priority cohorts are first-tim...

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MAAdopted 06/2006Postsec.
Community College
Student Health Insurance Program
114.6 CMR 3.00
Implements the statutory requirement that students enrolled inMassachusetts institutions of higher education participate in a qualifyingstudent health insurance program. Sets forth the minimum benefit levels andrequired services for student health insurance pl...

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NJSigned into law 06/2006P-12Distribution of Meningococcal Meningitis Fact Sheet
S.B. 1461
Requires department of health and senior services to develop an educational fact sheet concerning meningococcal meningitis; directs the commissioner of education to distribute the fact sheet to parents and guardians of students in grade 6 through 12 at the sta...

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NYSigned into law 06/2006P-12Children's Environmental Health and Safety Bill of Rights Act
A.B. 6905
Enacts the Children's Environmental Health and Safety Bill of Rights Act. Directs the Commissioners of Health, Education and Environmental Conservation and an advisory committee established by the Commissioner of Health to develop programs and regulations to p...

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NYDied 06/2006P-12Skin Cancer Prevention
S.B. 4090
Requires the education department to establish a comprehensive program on the prevention of skin cancer to be incorporated into the curricula of each school grade....

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COSigned into law 05/2006P-12School-based Health Clinics
H.B. 1396
Creates a grant program in the prevention services division of the department of public health and environment for the purpose of providing grants to school-based health centers; directs the division to develop criteria for the grants in consultation with scho...

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COSigned into law 05/2006P-12Student Medicaid Eligibility
H.B. 1270
Establishes a demonstration project to authorize qualified public school personnel to make determinations of eligibility for medicaid and the children's basic health plan; directs the executive director of the department of health care policy and financing to ...

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CTSigned into law 05/2006P-12Physical Health Plans for Students
S.B. 204
Promotes the physical health needs of students; allows local and regional boards of education to adopt guidelines to coordinate services and programs in order to address the physical health needs of students; provides that school boards may implement them by t...

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ILSigned into law 05/2006Postsec.Smoking Ban in Dorms
S.B. 2465
Provides that smoking is prohibited in any portion of a building used in whole or in part as a student dormitory that is owned, operated or otherwise utilized by a public or private institution of higher education. Provides the the prohibition does not apply t...

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ILSigned into law 05/2006P-12Epinephrine Auto-Injector
S.B. 2898
Adds the requirement that a school permit a pupil to use an epinephrine auto-injector in provisions that require a public or nonpublic school to permit the self-administration of medication by a pupil with asthma. Amends the State Mandates Act to require imple...

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ILSigned into law 05/2006P-12Educational Materials on Meningitis
S.B. 2728
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop educational materials on meningitis for distribution in elementary and secondary schools. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/SB/PDF/09400SB2728lv.pdf...

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MOSigned into law 05/2006P-12Auto-Injectible Epinephrine
H.B. 1732
Includes auto-injectible epinephrine for anaphylactic shock as a permissible self-administered medication. Specifies necessary conditions for self-administration including a written treatment plan, proof that a student has demonstrated the skill required, and ...

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TNSigned into law 05/2006P-12Homeless Students and Immunization
S.B. 3918
Prohibits school districts from denying admission to homeless children for lack of proof of immunization.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3918.pdf...

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TNSigned into law 05/2006P-12Guidelines for Students w/ Allergies
H.B. 2442; SB 2883
Requires the department of education in conjunction with the department of health to develop and make available to each LEA guidelines for the management of students with life-threatening allergies; requires the LEAs to implement plans based on the guidelines ...

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TNSigned into law 05/2006P-12Physical Activity Requirement for Schools
H.B. 3750
Requires LEAs to incorporate at least 30 minutes of physical activity three times a week into the instructional school day for elementary and secondary school students.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB3750.pdf...

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VTSigned into law 05/2006P-12Students with Life-Threatening Allergies and Chronic Illnesses
H.B. 611
Directs the commissioner of education, with the commissioner of health to annually inform superintendents and principals of appropriate practices regarding students with life-threatening allergies and chronic illnesses; and prepare and distribute policies, tra...

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WISigned into law 05/2006P-12Use of Inhalers in Private Schools
A.B. 1132
Provides that no private school or private school employee is civilly liable for injury to a pupil caused by a private school employee who prohibits a pupil from using an inhaler because of the employee's good faith belief that the student was not allowed to p...

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IASigned into law 04/2006P-12Healthy Children Task Force
S.B. 2251
Directs the department of education and the department of public health to convene a healthy children task force to:
a. Assess current policies and statutes affecting the health of children, specifically physical activity, physical education, food and nutriti...

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KYSigned into law 04/2006P-12Meningitis Disease and Vaccine
H.B. 475
Requires a school district to provide information on meningococcal meningitis disease and its vaccine to parents and guardians of students in grades 6 through 12 if other health information is also provided, and lists information to be included; requires the D...

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KYSigned into law 04/2006P-12Health Education
H.B. 589
Encourages public schools to include age-appropriate education on the risks associated with exposure to ultraviolet rays within the existing health curriculum. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB589/bill.doc...

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KYSigned into law 04/2006P-12
Postsec.
Community College
Hepatitis C Education and Awareness
H.B. 540
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop a statewide education, awareness and information program on hepatitis C, which may be incorporated into other existing health education programs. Provides that the program may include material to specifically...

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MDSigned into law 04/2006P-12School Health Coordinators
H.B. 613
Requires each county board of education to designate a school health services program coordinator; permitting a county board to authorize the county health department to designate the coordinator; requires the coordinator to carry out specified duties; require...

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MESigned into law 04/2006P-12
Postsec.
Health Coverage for College Students
S.B. 777; LD 2014
Requires individual and group health insurance policies to continue coverage for dependent children up to 24 years of age who are unable to maintain enrollment in college due to mental or physical illness if they would otherwise terminate coverage due to a req...

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VASigned into law 04/2006P-12Minimum Requirements for Immunization for Children
S.B. 116
Sets out the minimum requirements for the immunization of children for the state board to include in their regulations. The requirements bring the Commonwealth in line with the Immunization Schedule developed and published by the Centers for Disease Control an...

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WVSigned into law 04/2006P-12Body Mass Index
S.B. 785
Changes the requirement that body mass index measures be taken of all students in grades four through eight and high school students enrolled in physical education courses to a requirement that body mass index data be collected and reported on a sample number ...

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IASigned into law 03/2006P-12Obesity Prevention Program
S.B. 2124
Establishes a nutrition and physical activity community obesity prevention grant program. Provides that the purpose of the program is to increase the physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption of targeted elementary school students, with a long-ter...

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INSigned into law 03/2006P-12Automatic External Defibrillators
H.B. 1106
Relates to automatic external defibrillators; allows persons who provide emergency medical services to use an automated external defibrillator without requiring a certificate; removes the use of an automatic or semiautomatic defibrillator from the definition o...

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MSSigned into law 03/2006P-12Local School Wellness Plans
H.B. 319
Directs local school districts to establish local school health councils to provide guidance on the development and implementation of a local school wellness plan.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0319SG.htm...

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UTSigned into law 03/2006P-12Urges Use of Prevention Dimensions Curriculum
H.C.R. 3
Strongly urges education in the public education system to utilize Prevention Dimensions, the state's Safe and Drug Free School curriculum to education students regarding substance abuse; strongly urges the citizens of the state to increase their awareness of ...

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WISigned into law 03/2006P-12Volunteer Health Care Provider Program
A.B. 829
Expands the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program to include provision of services to students from 4- year-old kindergarten to grade 6 in public elementary schools, charter schools and private schools that participate in the Parental Choice Program. Expands ...

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WISigned into law 03/2006P-12Information on Meningococcal Disease
A.B. 589
2005 Wisconsin Act 221 requires the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to make available to school districts, private schools, and charter schools information about meningococcal disease, including the causes and symptoms of the disease, how it is spread, ...

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WVSigned into law 03/2006P-12Individual Diabetes Care Plans
H.B. 2548
Relates to establishment of individual diabetes care plans for students with diabetes by county boards of education; requires the state board to adopt guidelines for the development and implementation of individual diabetes care plans on or before January 1, 2...

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WVSigned into law 03/2006P-12Ratio of School Nurses
S.B. 53
Changes ratio of school nurses to students in enrollment.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2006_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB53%20SUB2%20enr.htm...

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