Bill Summaries: H348 (2021)

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  • Bill H 348 (2021-2022)
    Summary date: Mar 22 2021 - View summary

    Includes whereas clauses. Enacts GS 115C-47(65) and 115C-12(47) to charge local boards of education and the State Board of Education with ensuring that each school within the local school administrative unit, and each school operated under the control of the State Board, respectively, is staffed by at least one full-time, permanent school nurse. Enacts the following provisions to require charter schools, regional schools, and lab schools to ensure that the respective school is staffed by at least one full-time, permanent school nurse: GS 115C-218.75(i); GS 115C-238.66(17); and GS 116-239.8(b)(19). Applies beginning with the 2021-22 school year. 

    Appropriates $102,000,000 in recurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) for 2021-22 to increase the Instructional Support Allotment. Restricts use of the funds to increasing school nurse positions to provide at least one full-time, permanent school nurse in every school in a public school unit. Specifies that the funds are to supplement any funds already provided for school nurses. 

    Effective July 1, 2021.
    Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, Department of Public Instruction, Health and Human Services, Health
    APPROP, GS 115C, GS 116

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