HF 102: 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, 2025, 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 January 30, 2025

• Rep. Dr. Steven P. Bradley (R) · steven.bradley@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Barb Kniff McCulla (R) · barb.kniffmcculla@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Elinor A. Levin (D) · elinor.levin@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 21 for, 8 against

For: Autism Speaks; Blank Childrens Hospital; Brain Injury Association of Iowa; Easterseals Iowa; Epilepsy Foundation Iowa; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; Iowa Association of Christian Schools; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Iowa Chapter-American Academy of Pediatrics; Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council; and 9 more

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

In plain words

1. January 22, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. January 30, 2025House subcommittee named: Bradley, Kniff McCulla and Levin
3. February 11, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. March 4, 2025Approved by the House committee
5. March 4, 2025Committee vote: 21–2
6. March 7, 2025Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 835
7. April 10, 2025Withdrawn