AB 882: Pupil health care services: School Nursing and Pupil Health Care Services Task Force.

Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils, and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law authorizes a school nurse, subject to approval by the governing board of the school district, to perform various pupil health care services.

This bill would establish the School Nursing and Pupil Health Care Services Task Force consisting of 18 members, appointed as specified. The bill would specify that the main task of the task force shall be to identify model school health care services programs and practices that directly serve pupils that can be used by county offices of education and school districts to provide support and technical assistance to schools within each jurisdiction in order to improve the safety and quality of health care services to pupils. The bill would require the task force to perform specified actions, including, among others, examining health care funding sources, investigating the billing of pupils health insurance, and recommending standards of school nursing practices. The bill would require the State Department of Education to convene one or more meetings of the task force to complete these requirements and to report the results to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2019.