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H464 • 2025
Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School.
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Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School.
Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Passed 1st Reading
Filed
Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2025 H 1 HOUSE BILL 464 Short Title: Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School. (Public) Sponsors: Representatives Ball, Lambeth, Cunningham, and White (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site. Referred to: Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House March 20, 2025 *H464-v-1* A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1 AN ACT TO REQUIRE AT LEAST ONE SCHOOL NU RSE IN EVERY SCHOOL IN A 2 PUBLIC SCHOOL UNIT B EGINNING IN THE 2025 -2026 SCHOOL YEAR AN D TO 3 APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO MEET THAT REQUIREMENT. 4 Whereas, the health, well-being, and educational success of public school students in 5 North Carolina are top priorities of the General Assembly; and 6 Whereas, employing school nurses has been shown to have a critical and positive 7 impact on the health, well -being, and educational success of public school students in 8 kindergarten through grade 12 due to services directed toward keeping students healthy, in class, 9 and ready to learn; Now, therefore, 10 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 11 SECTION 1.(a) G.S. 115C-47 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read: 12 "(70) To Provide at Least One School Nurse in Every School. – Local boards of 13 education shall ensure that each school within the local school administrative 14 unit is staffed by at least one full-time, permanent school nurse." 15 SECTION 1.(b) G.S. 115C-150.12C is amended by adding a new subdivision to 16 read: 17 "(37) To provide at least one school nurse in every school. – The board of trustees 18 shall ensure that each school is staffed by at least one full -time, permanent 19 school nurse." 20 SECTION 1.(c) G.S. 115C-218.75 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 21 "(p) At Least One School Nurse. – A charter school shall ensure that the school is staffed 22 by at least one full-time, permanent school nurse." 23 SECTION 1.(d) G.S. 115C-238.66 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read: 24 "(23) At least one school nurse required. – A regional school shall ensure that the 25 school is staffed by at least one full-time, permanent school nurse." 26 SECTION 1.(e) G.S. 116-239.8(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read: 27 "(26) At least one school nurse required. – A laboratory school shall ensure that the 28 school is staffed by at least one full-time, permanent school nurse." 29 SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department o f 30 Public Instruction for the 2025 -2026 fiscal year the sum of ninety -five million dollars 31 ($95,000,000) in recurring funds to increase the School Health Personnel Allotment. These funds 32 shall be used to increase positions for school nurses in order to prov ide at least one full -time, 33 permanent school nurse in every school in a public school unit. 34 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 Page 2 House Bill 464-First Edition SECTION 3. Funds provided pursuant to this act shall supplement and not supplant 1 any funds from any source already provided for school nurses. 2 SECTION 4. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. Section 1 of this act applies 3 beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. 4