Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that requires public school governing bodies to adopt policies to provide school-based health center services in Louisiana.

Highlights:

• Prohibits any school administrator or other employee from prohibiting a student from accessing school-based health center services that were consented to by a student’s parent, guardian, or self if of legal age (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that this prohibition does not require a school that does not already provide school-based health center services to establish such services (Sec. 1).

• Requires the governing authority of any public school where school-based health center services are available to adopt a policy to implement the provisions of this section (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that charter schools are exempt from the requirements of this section (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that requires public school governing bodies to adopt policies to provide school-based health center services in Louisiana.

Highlights:

• Prohibits any school administrator or other employee from prohibiting a student from accessing school-based health center services that were consented to by a student’s parent, guardian, or self if of legal age (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that this prohibition does not require a school that does not already provide school-based health center services to establish such services (Sec. 1).

• Requires the governing authority of any public school where school-based health center services are available to adopt a policy to implement the provisions of this section (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that charter schools are exempt from the requirements of this section (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text