[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5335 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5335

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2010

  Mr. Marshall (for himself and Mr. Castle) 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 local educational 
  agencies for the purpose of reducing the student-to-nurse ratio in 
                public elementary and secondary schools.

    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 ``Nurses for Impoverished Schools 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCING STUDENT-TO-NURSE RATIOS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    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-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 local educational agencies for the 
purpose of reducing the student-to-nurse ratio in public elementary and 
secondary schools.
    ``(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-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 (20 U.S.C. 
        7801).
            ``(2) The term `eligible local educational agency' means a 
        local educational agency in which--
                    ``(A) not less than 20 percent of the students 
                served by the agency are from families with incomes 
                below the poverty line (as defined in section 9101 of 
                the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
                U.S.C. 7801)); and
                    ``(B) the student-to-school nurse ratio in public 
                elementary and secondary schools is 750 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 2011 through 2015.''.
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