REPORT TITLE:
School Health Nurses


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to hire 30 full-time registered nurses within
DOH to be assigned to a public school, except one unassigned
nurse who will cover when others are sick or on vacation. (HB2810
HD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                     
STATE OF HAWAII                                                 
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HIRE THIRTY FULL-TIME REGISTERED
   NURSES WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that it is imperative that
 
 2 Hawaii's public school students receive adequate health care
 
 3 services.  Currently, children in Hawaii's public schools who
 
 4 have varying degrees of health challenges are cared for by school
 
 5 health aides.  Given the growing complexity of student health
 
 6 needs, the public school health aides may not be prepared to meet
 
 7 these complex health challenges.  Therefore, it is the intent of
 
 8 the legislature to begin the process of re-introducing school
 
 9 health nurses into Hawaii's public schools.
 
10      Currently, there are twenty-nine public school complexes
 
11 throughout the State.  These complexes include high schools,
 
12 intermediate schools, and elementary schools.
 
13      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to hire
 
14 full-time registered nurses for Hawaii's public school complexes.
 
15      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
16 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1,800,000 or so much
 
17 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001 to hire
 
18 thirty full-time registered nurses within the department of
 
19 health; provided that each registered nurse shall be assigned to
 

 
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 1 a public school complex, except for one unassigned nurse who
 
 2 shall provide for vacation and sick leave coverage of the other
 
 3 registered nurses.
 
 4      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 5 department of health for the purposes of this Act.
 
 6      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.