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From the ECS State Policy Database 2009 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2009. 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." Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. 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Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education Curriculum--Home Economics Curriculum--International Education Curriculum--Language Arts Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling Curriculum--Mathematics Curriculum--Physical Education Curriculum--Science Curriculum--Sex Education Curriculum--Social Studies/History Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults Desegregation Economic/Workforce Development Education Research Equity Federal Finance Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost Finance--Bonds Finance--District Finance--Equity Finance--Facilities Finance--Federal Finance--Funding Formulas Finance--Litigation Finance--Local Foundations/Funds Finance--Lotteries Finance--Resource Efficiency Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures Finance--Student Fees Finance--Taxes/Revenues Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues Governance Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest Governance--School Boards Governance--School Boards--Training Governance--Site-Based Management Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies Health WI Signed into law 12/2009 P-12 Protects Health Care Volunteers from Liability S.B. 80 Relates to liability of volunteer health care providers providing services for a nonprofit agency, a school board or governing body; include... More... CA Vetoed 10/2009 P-12 Cleaning of Wrestling Equipment S.B. 212 Authorizes the governing board of each school district maintaining a high school to provide for the annual cleaning and sterilization of wre... More... CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Information about Meningococcal Disease S.B. 249 Requires the department of public health to develop information about meningococcal disease, including information pertaining to children be... More... CA Vetoed 10/2009 P-12 Early Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity Pilot Program A.B. 627 Provides legislative findings and declarations on nutrition and health in children's early years. Requires the superintendent of public inst... More... NV Rule Adoption 10/2009 P-12 HEALTH COURSES NAC 389.2423, .2944, .281, .381, .455 Revises and repeals provisions governing courses of instruction for health. www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/CHAPTERS.HTMl... More... TX Adopted 10/2009 P-12 Control of Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infections 25 TAC 1.97.A.97.7 Amends rules concerning the control of communicable diseases requiring exclusion from schools. Deletes the references to child-care faciliti... More... CA Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Dentistry in the Schools A.B. 667 From Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires that pupils of public and private schools, be offered the opportunity to receive, w... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Application of Lawn Care Products S.B. 1769 Requires school districts to adopt a procedure to comply with the Lawn Care Products Application and Notice Act and the Structural Pest Cont... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Life-Threatening Food Allergies H.B. 281 Requires the state board of education, in conjunction with the department of public health, to develop and make available to each school boa... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Health Emergencies, Certification Requirements H.B. 2675 Provides that, if a district closes one or more (but not all) schools during a public health emergency, the district may claim a full day of... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Cancer Prevention S.B. 1665 Requires that the Comprehensive Health Education Program include information about cancer, including types of cancer, signs and symptoms, ri... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Obesity Prevention Initiative Act H.B. 3767 Creates the Obesity Prevention Initiative Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to organize at least three hearings on the health an... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 MRSA Prevention in Residential Schools and Juvenile Corrections Centers H.B. 185 Creates the MRSA Prevention, Control, and Reporting Act to to improve the prevention of infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococc... More... NC Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 School Diabetes Care Plans S.B. 738 Requires boards of directors of charter schools to implement the guidelines adopted by the State Board of Education for the development and ... More... HI Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 07/2009 P-12 Environmentally-Sensitive Cleaning and Maintenance Products H.B. 1538 Requires public school facilities to give first preference to the purchase of environmentally-sensitive cleaning and maintenance products. D... More... OH Adopted 07/2009 P-12 Integrated Pest Management OAC 901:5-11-14, -15 Creates new rules relating to integrated pest management standard and pesticide use in schools. Integrated Pest Management Standard: http:/... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Policies to Protect Students with Food Allergies H.B. 1 - Section 3313.719 Creates new section 3313.719. Directs school districts, community schools, STEM schools and chartered nonpublic schools to adopt written pol... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Administration of Prescription Drugs to Students H.B. 1 - Section 3313.713 Effective July 1, 2011, permits only district employees who are licensed health professionals, or who have completed a drug administration t... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 School Health and Safety Inspections H.B. 1 - Sections 3313.473, 3313.86, 3701.93 through 3701.936 From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Section 3313.86: Creates new Section 3313.86. Requires school districts, community schools, STEM schools and ch... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Governor's Advisory Council on Physical Fitness, Wellness and Sports H.B. 1 - Sections 3701.77, 3701.771 and 3701.772 Repeals 3701.77, which established in the department of health the 15-member governor's advisory council on physical fitness, wellness and s... More... CT Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Automatic External Defibrillators in Schools S.B. 981 Concerns the availability of automatic external defibrillators in Schools; saves lives by requiring that: (1) There be an automatic external... More... LA Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Student Fitness Assessments S.B. 309 Provides for physical fitness assessments in schools. It is the intention of the legislature to authorize a framework to collect data to ass... More... ME Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Phys. Ed. and Health in Elementary Schools H.B. 983 Requires the Commissioner of Education to conduct an assessment of the physical education capacities of elementary schools and to report to ... More... NC Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Reproductive Health and Safety Education H.B. 88 Removes the requirement that local school administrative units (LEAs) provide only abstinence until marriage education and requires LEAs to ... More... NH Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Repeal of Health School Health Committee H.B. 527 Repeals the coordinated school health committee and requires a report to be submitted detailing the state's efforts in providing health educ... More... OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Student Concussions S.B. 348 Requires coaches of school athletic teams to receive annual training on how to recognize symptoms of a concussion and how to seek proper med... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 Postsec. Bacterial Meningitis and Postsecondary Compliance Programs H.B. 4189 Creates new Section 51.9192. Applies to first-time students enrolling in public, private and independent institutions of higher education on... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Web Site on Special Health Needs H.B. 1322 Directs the state education agency to establish a Web site for teachers of students with special health needs. Requires the Web site to incl... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Coordinated School Health Program S.B. 892 Requires the campus improvement plan of an an elementary, middle or junior high school to set goals and objectives for a coordinated health ... More... TX Adopted 06/2009 P-12 Integrated Pest Management in Schools 4 TAC 1.7.7.150, .153 §7.150 is repealed and adopted with new language. Specifies requirements for school districts to follow in implementing an integrated pest m... More... AL Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Automated External Defibrillator S.B. 306 Requires that an automated external defibrillator be placed in each public K-12 school in the state. Requires at one employee at each school... More... GA Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Information about Meningitis H.B. 300 Requires local school systems to provide information to parents of students in grades 6-12 on meningococcal meningitis disease and its vacci... More... IN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Immunizations S.B. 219 Includes a physician's designee and a pharmacist's designee as persons who may provide immunization data to the immunization data registry; ... More... MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Instructions for Schools Offering CPR Instruction S.B. 567 Requires school districts that offer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or automatic external defibrillator instruction to use instruction develo... More... MO Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Student Health H.B. 922 Requires school districts to adopt policies on allergy prevention and response, with priority given to addressing potentially deadly food-bo... More... ND Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Outreach Regarding Availability of Insurance H.B. 1400 - Health Insurance Requires the superintendent of public instruction and the department of human services to jointly develop a system under which families of c... More... NE Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Booster Immunizations for 7th graders L.B. 464 Amends section 79-217 to require every student entering 7th grade on or after July 1, 2010 to have a booster immunization containing diphthe... More... NH Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Commission on HIV S.B. 45 Extends by one year the reporting date for the commission to review New Hampshire's statutes on HIV education, prevention, and control. http... More... NV Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Public Health Emergencies A.B. 112 Establishes provisions relating to public health emergencies; requires the Governor to determine whether a public health emergency or other ... More... NV Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Student Weight A.B. 191 Extends the prospective expiration of the requirement that each school conduct examinations of the height and weight of a representative sam... More... TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Immunizations S.J.R. 85 Urges department of health to enhance current immunization activities to focus on vaccination of all children ages six months through 18 yea... More... TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Diabetes Prevention and Health Improvement H.B. 2270 Makes all schools, instead of just high schools, eligible for grants from the Tennessee center for diabetes prevention and health improvemen... More... TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Psychotropic Drug Policy Reviews S.B. 1925 As introduced, instructs the state board of education to review district policies on school personnel recommending psychotropic drugs such a... More... TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Waivers for Makeup Days S.B. 899 Provides that in the event of a natural disaster or serious outbreak of illness affective or endangering students or staff during a school y... More... TX Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Adolescent Health H.C.R. 88 Directs the department of state health Services and the state education agency and all other state agencies that provide information, servic... More... AR Signed into law 04/2009 Postsec. Community College The Clean Air on Campus Act of 2009 H.B. 2007 Enacts the Clean Air on Campus Act of 2009; prohibits smoking on state-supported institutions of higher education campuses to protect studen... More... GA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Auto-Injectible Epinephrine S.B. 8 Authorizes students to possess and self-administer prescription auto-injectable epinephrine. Requires local board policies to include provis... More... GA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Student Health and Physical Education Act H.B. 229 Enacts the Student Health and Physical Education Act. Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, requires local school systems to conduct an annu... More... IN Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Air Quality S.B. 440 Requires the State Department of Health to adopt rules concerning indoor air quality in schools and state agencies; provides that after the ... More... KS Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Administration of Medication H.B. 2008 Concerns the School Medication Aide Act; relates to epinephrine kits, responsibility for maintenance by the Board of Pharmacy, and persons a... More... MD Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Physical Fitness Measurement Program S.B. 879 Requires each local school system to develop and implement an annual physical fitness measurement program; establishes specified program ele... More... MD Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 School Wellness Policy H.B. 1264; S.B. 879 Authorizes local school systems to develop and implement Wellness Policy Implementation and Monitoring Plans to establish baseline student d... More... OK Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Safe Routes to School Program S.B. 399 Requires the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to establish and implement the Safe Routes to Schools program, a federally-funded program... More... WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Health H.B. 1322 Repeals the program for scoliosis screening in schools. Chapter 41 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law... More... KY Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Sports Safety H.B. 383 Requires the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, with assistance from the department of education, to staff and coordinate a study o... More... VA Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation H.B. 2456 Changes the name of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth and allows for moneys from the V... More... CA Vetoed 01/2009 P-12 Postsec. Finance and Facilities A.B. 4A Relates to sufficient textbook requirements, county superintendent revenue limits, school district building maintenance funding, funding for... More... 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