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House passes school-nursing incentive bill after close fight over funding language
Summary
The House passed HB 135, creating a voluntary school nursing services incentive program with local-state matching funds and planning guidance; members narrowly agreed to change mandatory appropriation language ('shall') to permissive ('may') before final passage, 64–3.
The Utah House on Feb. 9 passed House Bill 135, a school nursing services incentive program designed to encourage collaborative planning between school districts, local public health departments and private medical providers to increase access to school nurses. The measure passed the House 64–3.
Sponsor Representative Stevens told the House the bill establishes a voluntary incentive program under which approved district applications would receive incentive funds on a matching basis: two-thirds from local sources (school districts, local health departments or donations) and one-third from a state-administered incentive fund. Stevens said the program is intended as enabling legislation and that appropriations to fund the program would be requested…
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