Bill Number: S.B. 1654

            Kerr Floor Amendment

            Reference to: HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES Committee amendment

            Amendment drafted by: Leg Council

FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION

1. Allows a registered nurse practitioner to develop, sign and be responsible for a student's seizure management and treatment plan.

2. Removes the requirement that each charter school nurse or school
district-contracted nurse and outlined employees complete the prescribed seizure disorder online course at least once every two years.

3. Prohibits the prescribed training for nurses and outlined school employees from being required more than once in a five-year period.

4. Stipulates that a school nurse must complete prescribed training if the school received a student seizure management and treatment plan.

5. Narrows the applicability of the seizure management training requirement for non-school nurses to only principals, guidance counselors, teachers, bus drivers and classroom aides that come into regular contact with students who have submitted a seizure management and treatment plan.

6. Removes the encouragement of private school nurses and other private school employees to receive seizure disorder management training.

7. Removes the requirement that a private school have at least one school employee, other than a school nurse, to meet the training requirements necessary to administer or assist with the self-administration of a seizure rescue medication or a manual dose of prescribed electrical stimulation.

Fifty-fifth Legislature                                                      Kerr

Second Regular Session                                                  S.B. 1654

KERR FLOOR AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1654

(Reference to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee amendment)

Page 1, strike lines 1 through 11, insert:

"Page 1, lines 14, 24 and 31, after "physician" insert "or registered nurse practitioner as defined in section 32-1601"

Page 2, line 5, after the second "school" insert "that has received a seizure management and treatment plan"

Line 8, after the period insert "The training prescribed in this subsection may not be required more than once in a five-year period."

Line 9, after the first "school" strike remainder of line

Line 10, strike "school nurse," insert "principal, guidance counselor, teacher, bus driver or classroom aide"

Line 11, after "students" insert "who have submitted a seizure management and treatment plan"

Line 14, after the period insert "The training prescribed in this subsection may not be required more than once in a five-year period.""

Line 14, after "district" strike remainder of line

Line 15, strike "private school"

Amend title to conform

SINE KERR

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02/28/2022

01:13 PM

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