HF 379: Relating to school personnel training, emergency care planning, authorizations for assisting, and limitations of liability concerning students with epilepsy or a seizure disorder

What it does

This bill relates to school personnel training, emergency care planning, authorizations for assisting, and limitations of liability concerning students with epilepsy or a seizure disorder. The bill creates definitions for “individual health plan”, “school nurse”, “school personnel”, and “seizure action plan”. The bill requires by the start of the school year beginning July 1, 2024, for the board of directors of each school district and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school to have at least one school employee at each school who has met the training requirements necessary to administer or assist with the self-administration of a seizure rescue medication or medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder symptoms and approved by the United States food and drug administration and a manual dose of prescribed electrical stimulation using a vagus nerve stimulator magnet approved by the United States food and drug administration.

House subcommittee · named February 22, 2023

• Rep. Ray Sorensen (R) · ray.sorensen@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Molly Buck (D)
• Rep. Bill Gustoff (R) · bill.gustoff@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 9 for, 6 against

For: Autism Speaks; Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; Easterseals Iowa; Epilepsy Foundation Iowa; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council; Iowa Nurse Practitioners Society; Iowa Nurses Association

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

In plain words

1. February 21, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. February 22, 2023House subcommittee named: Sorensen, Buck and Gustoff
3. March 1, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. March 1, 2023Approved by the House committee
5. March 3, 2023Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 608
6. March 14, 2023Withdrawn