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School Health Services Program

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Legislative Authority

Legislative authority for school health programs and services can be found in Florida Statutes (F.S.) administered by the Department of Health, and the Department of Education.  Rules under the Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.) provide the specific guidelines that implement the programs required by statute.

FLORIDA STATUTES (Laws of Florida Online - to search all Florida statutes)

  39.201 - Mandatory reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect; mandatory reports of death; central abuse hotline

  381.001 - Legislative intent; public health system.

  381.0022 - Sharing confidential or exempt information.

  381.003 - Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and control.

  381.0031 - Report of diseases of public health significance to department.

  381.005 - Primary and preventive health services.

  381.0054 - Healthy lifestyles promotion.

  381.0056 - School health services program.

  381.0057 - Funding for school health services.

  381.0059 - Background screening requirements for school health services personnel.

  381.00593 - Public school volunteer health care practitioner program.

  401.2915 - Automated external defibrillators.

  402.3025 - Public and nonpublic schools

  402.3026 - Full-service schools.

  464 - Part I, Nurse Practice Act.

  624.91 - The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation Act.

  743.01 - Removal of disabilities of married minors.

  743.064 - Emergency medical care or treatment to minors without parental consent.

  743.0645 - Other persons who may consent to medical care or treatment of a minor.

  1001.43 - Supplemental powers and duties of district school board

  1002.20 - K-12 student and parent rights.  (section (3) Health Issues) (amended 2010)

  1002.22 - Education records and reports of K-12 students; rights of parents and students; notification; penalty. (amended 2009)

  1002.221 - K-12 education records.  (amended 2010)

  1002.23 - Family and School Partnership for Student Achievement Act.  (amended 2010)

  1002.33 - Charter Schools. (see sections: (9), and (16) for health requirements).  (amended 2010)

  1002.42 - Private schools.

  1003.22 - School-entry health examinations; immunizations against communicable diseases; exemptions. (amended 2009)

  1003.25 - Procedures for maintenance and transfer of student records.

  1003.42 - Required instruction.  (amended 2010)

  1003.453 - School wellness and physical education policies; nutrition guidelines.

  1003.455 - Physical education; assessment.

  1003.46 - Health education; instruction in acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

  1003.54 - Teenage parent programs.

  1003.57 - Exceptional students instruction.  (amended 2010)

  1006.061 - Child abuse, abandonment, and neglect policy.

  1006.062 - Administration of medication and provision of medical services by district school board personnel.

  1006.0625 - Administration of psychotropic medication; prohibition; conditions.

  1006.165 - Automated external defibrillator; user training.

  1006.20 - Athletics in public K-12 schools. (amended 2009)

  1012.465 - Background screening requirements for certain noninstructional school district employees and contractors. (also see ss. 1012.467, .468)

  1012.467 - Noninstructional contractors who are permitted access to school grounds when students are present; background screening requirements
  1012.468 - Exceptions to certain fingerprinting and criminal history checks
  1012.55 - Positions for which certificates required (see section (3) related to school nurses) (amended 2010)

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FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE CODES (Florida Administrative Code Online - to search Florida's Administrative Code)

All the following documents are in pdf format & less than 100 KB unless indicated otherwise.

  6A-1.0955 - Education Records of Pupils and Adult Students.

  6A-3.0121 - Responsibility of School District and Parents for Students with Special Transportation Needs who are Transported at Public Expense.

  6A-6.024 - School Entry Health Examinations.

  6A-6.0251 - Use of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors.

  6A-6.0331 - General Education Intervention Procedures, Identification, Evaluation, Reevaluation and the Initial Provision of Exceptional Education Services.

  6A-6.0525 - Teenage Parent Programs.

  64B9-14 - Delegation to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (sections .001-.003).

  64D-3.046 - Immunization Requirements: Public and Nonpublic Schools, Grades Preschool, K - 12 (amended 2010)

  64E-13 - School Sanitation.

  64F-6 - School Health Services Program.

  65C-22.006 - Record Keeping (Health Records).  See Chapter 65C-22, Child Care Standards, for full text. (amended 2010)

Miscellaneous REQUIREMENTS

  Clinic Requirements (16 KB pdf) - State Requirements for Educational Facilities, December 2007; Chapter 5, Section 5(g) & (h)

  Records (92 KB pdf) - General Records Schedule GS7: Public Schools (excerpts relating to school health records only).

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