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From the ECS State Policy Database 2013 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2013. 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--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling Curriculum--Mathematics Curriculum--Physical Education Curriculum--Science Curriculum--Sex Education Curriculum--Social Studies/History Data-Driven Improvement Demographics--Enrollments Economic/Workforce Development Economic/Workforce Development--Value of an Education Education Research Equity Federal Finance Finance--Bonds Finance--District Finance--Facilities Finance--Funding Formulas Finance--Lotteries Finance--Performance Funding 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--Regional Entities Governance--School Boards Governance--School Boards--Training Governance--Site-Based Management Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies Health OR Signed into law 07/2013 P-12 Student Vision Health. H.B. 3000 Amends definitions and requires the department of education to submit to the interim legislative committees on education by December 1, 2013 a report that recommends the means for providing adequate resources for administering regular vision screenings in the ... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Emergency epinephrine administration S.B. 1421 Requires school district governing boards to prescribe and enforce policies and procedures for the emergency administration of auto-injectable epinephrine by a trained school district employee. Allows a school district or charter school employee who is properl... More... CT Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Childhood Obesity Taskforce and Exercise Requirements H.B. 6525 Establishes a Task Force on Childhood Obesity to study the effects of obesity on children's health. Determines membership and responsibilities of the Task Force. Requires each local and regional board of education, by October 1, 2013, to adopt policies it dee... More... IL To governor 06/2013 P-12 Information on Streptococcal Infection H.B. 2009 Directs the department of public health, in conjunction with the state board of education, to develop educational material on streptococcal infection for distribution in elementary and secondary schools. Requires the material to include a process for notifying... More... IL To governor 06/2013 P-12 Training Video on CPR and Automated External Defibrillators H.B. 1225 Requires the Illinois High School Association to post a training video on hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators on the association's website, but only if it is provided to the association free of charge and is no more t... More... IL To governor 06/2013 P-12 Meningococcal Immunization Before Grades 6 and 12 H.B. 3190 Directs the department of public health to adopt a rule requiring students, upon entering grade 6 or 12 of any public, private, or parochial school, to receive a meningococcal immunization that meets specified standards. Provides this immunization must not app... More... ME Vetoed 06/2013 Postsec. Community College No Smoking on Campus H.P. 318 Prohibits smoking on the grounds of any campus of the University of Maine System, the Maine Community College System or the Maine Maritime Academy. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0318&item=1&snum=126... More... ME Became law without governor's signature 06/2013 P-12 Increasing Awareness of Food Allergies in Schools H.P. 465 Requires the Department of Education to seek to increase awareness of the seriousness of student food allergies, the resources that are available to help schools identify, address and respond to food allergies, including training for teachers, best practices a... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Health of Student Athletes S.B. 1912 Codifies existing State Board of Education regulations that require that prior to the participation of any student enrolled in grades six to 12 on a school-sponsored interscholastic or intramural athletic team or squad, the student must have a physical examina... More... OR Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Student Epinephrine Pens H.B. 2749 Requires the establishment of a process by which the parent or guardian of a student may request in writing that backup prescribed autoinjectable epinephrine be kept at a reasonably secure location in a student's classroom if the location is not the student's ... More... OR Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Severe Allergy Protocol S.B. 611 Lays out the protocol for epinephrine administration and in addressing food allergies. http://www.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/sb0600.dir/sb0611.en.pdf ... More... RI Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 CPR and Defibrillator UseTraining for Students H.B. 5376, S.B. 318 Provides minimum guidelines for CPR training and requires an overview of automated external defibrillator (AED) use. At a minimum, training is to include psychomotor skill-based cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and an overview of automated externa... More... SC Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Use of Epinephrine H.B. 3725 Permits school districts and private schools to obtain supplies of epinephrine auto-injector to use in certain circumstances. Authorizes certain people to prescribe and dispense prescriptions for injectors. Stipulates administration, guidelines for epinephrine... More... SC Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Concussions H.B. 3061 Requires the state department of education to develop, distribute model policies concerning nature, risk of concussions sustained by student athletes. Directs each school district to develop its own policy, to require review of policy by student athletes and t... More... TX Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Local School Health Advisory Councils H.B. 1018 Amends the duties of local school health advisory councils to include, if feasible, joint use agreements or strategies for collaboration between the district and community organizations or agencies. Requires any such joint use agreement to address liability fo... More... TX Vetoed 06/2013 P-12 Screening for Spinal Curvature S.B. 504 Makes screening of students in grades 6-9 for spinal curvature voluntary (previously mandatory). Requires a school that chooses not to participate in the spinal screening program to provide parents of 6th to 9th graders with information developed by the depart... More... VT Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Life-Threatening Allergies, Mental Health S. 4, Section 4, 5 Requires multiple agencies departments to work to (1) catalogue the type and scope of mental health and substance abuse services provided in or through collaboration with Vermont public schools; (2) determine the number of students who are currently receiving... More... VT Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Concussions S. 4, Sections 1-4 Defines "Collision sport" as football, hockey, lacrosse, or wrestling and "Contact sport" as a sport, other than football, hockey, lacrosse, or wrestling, defined as a contact sport by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Defines "Health care provider" as an at... More... GA Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 School Allowable Drugs H.B. 337 Enables local public and private schools to stock a supply of auto-injectable epinephrine. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137090.pdf... More... IL Passed 05/2013 P-12 Physical Fitness H.J.R. 5 Encourage educators and school administrators to suggest some topics, but not limited to the following for discussion during fitness awareness week: nutrition and dietary behavior, physical activity protocols, tobacco-use prevention, alcohol or drug use preven... More... MN Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Epinephrine Auto-Injectors H.F. 630 Permits districts and school to obtain and possess epinephrine auto-injectors. Pages 87-88 of 214. http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS88/HF0630.4.pdf... More... MT Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Concussion Protection S.B. 112 SB 112 requires each school district in the state offering organized youth athletic activities to adopt policies and procedures to inform athletic trainers, coaches, officials, youth athletes, and parents or guardians of the nature and risk of brain injuries, ... More... NH Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Preventing Head Injury and Concussion H.B. 180 Amends the definitions of "student athlete" and "student sports" for purposes of management of head injury and concussion. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2013/HB0180.pdf... More... OK Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Epinephrine Pens at Schools H.B. 2101 Requries any school board that elects to stock Epinephrine injectors to amend its policy that permits the self-administration of inhaled asthma medication by a student for treatment of asthma and the self-administration of anaphylaxis medication by a student f... More... WA Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Placing Epinephrine Autoinjectors in Schools S.B. 5104 Allows for school districts and nonpublic schools to maintain at a school in a designated location a supply of epinephrine autoinjectors based on the number of students enrolled in the school. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2013-14/Pdf/Bills/Session... More... WV Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Concussions S.B. 336 Establishes protocols, protections to limit and treat injury to youth athletes and students. Defines rules for concussion identification, treatment. forth certain minimum provisions of rules. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB33... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Treatment of Diabetic students H.B. 2042 AN ACT amending section 15-344.01, Arizona Revised Statutes. Allows voluntary diabetes care assistants to administer insulin in addition to glucagon, assist the pupil with self-administration of insulin in an emergency situation or perform any combination of ... More... MT Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Maintenance of a Stock of Epinephrine S.B. 165 Authorizes schools to maintain a stock supply of epinephrine in a school setting. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2013/billpdf/SB0165.pdf... More... ND Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Amends Concussion Management Program H.B. 1028 Amends concussion management program requirements. Explicitly states that the duty to remove a student under the conditions set forth in this subsection extends to: (1) Each official; (2) The coach of a student; and (3) Any other individual designated by the s... More... TN Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Concussion Training S.B. 882 Requires school to adopt guidelines, other pertinent information as approved by the Department of Health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head... More... WA Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Establishing Statewide Indicators of Educational Health S.B. 5491 Establishes statewide indicators of educational system health and requires the state board, with assistance from the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the workforce training and education coordinating board, the educational opportunity gap ov... More... WV Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 School Use of Epinephrine H.B. 2729 Allows schools to voluntarily maintain and use epinephrine auto-injectors. Provides for the administration of an auto-injector by a school nurse or other trained and authorized nonmedical school personnel for emergency care or treatment of anaphylactic reactio... More... KY Signed into law 03/2013 P-12 Emergency Anaphylaxis Medications in Schools H.B. 172 Permits students with life-threatening allergies to have access to an epinephrine auto-injector in school, as well as a written individual health care plan for the prevention and proactive management for all school environments the student may be in, including... More... UT Signed into law 03/2013 P-12 Cytomegalovirus Public Health Initiative H.B. 81 Directs the department of health to establish a public education program regarding the impacts and dangers of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and the methods of prevention of CMV infection. Includes school nurses, persons offering health education i... More... 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