Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2009

Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make demonstration grants to states in which the student-to-school nurse ratio in public secondary schools, elementary schools, and kindergarten is 1,000 or more students to every school nurse to reduce such ratio.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2730 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2730

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of 
  Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible States for the 
    purpose of reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio in public 
        secondary schools, elementary schools, and kindergarten.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2009

 Mrs. McCarthy of New York (for herself, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. 
 Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. 
Moore of Kansas, Mr. Crenshaw, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. McMahon, Mr. 
 Bishop of New York, and Mr. McGovern) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of 
  Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible States for the 
    purpose of reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio in public 
        secondary schools, elementary schools, and kindergarten.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Student-to-School Nurse Ratio 
Improvement Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. REDUCING STUDENT-TO-SCHOOL NURSE RATIOS.

    Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:

                        ``PART J--SCHOOL NURSES

``SEC. 861. REDUCING STUDENT-TO-SCHOOL NURSE RATIOS.

    ``(a) Demonstration Grants.--The Secretary, acting through the 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make 
demonstration grants to eligible States for the purpose of reducing the 
student-to-school nurse ratio in public secondary schools, elementary 
schools, and kindergarten.
    ``(b) Report.--Not later than 24 months after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a 
report on the results of the demonstration grant program carried out 
under this section, including an evaluation of the effectiveness of the 
program in improving the student-to-school nurse ratios described in 
subsection (a) and an evaluation of the impact of any resulting 
enhanced health of students on learning.
    ``(c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            ``(1) The terms `elementary school' and `secondary school' 
        have the meanings given to those terms in section 9101 of the 
        Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
            ``(2) The term `eligible State' means a State in which the 
        student-to-school nurse ratio in public secondary schools, 
        elementary schools, and kindergarten is 1,000 or more students 
        to every school nurse.
            ``(3) The term `nurse' means a licensed nurse.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary 
for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014.''.
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