HF 575: Providing for training and other procedures relating to student seizures for public and accredited nonpublic schools

What it does

This bill requires school boards and authorities in charge of accredited nonpublic schools to have at least one employee at each attendance center who has received instruction on administering or assisting with the self-administration of seizure medication. Such instruction shall include instruction on administering seizure medication and recognizing the signs and symptoms of seizures and the appropriate steps to be taken to respond to such signs and symptoms and shall be fully consistent with training programs developed by the epilepsy foundation of America or any successor organization.

House subcommittee · named March 5, 2019

• Rep. Tom Moore (R) · tom.moore@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Joel Fry (R)
• Rep. Ruth Ann Gaines (D) · ruth.ann.gaines@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 2 for, 7 against

For: Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; Epilepsy Foundation Iowa

Against: Iowa Association of Christian Schools; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa School Counselors Association; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

1. March 4, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. March 5, 2019House subcommittee named: Moore, T., Fry and Gaines