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Committee approves substitute to let hospitals send parent-consented safety plans to schools
Summary
A House committee approved a joint favorable substitute (LCO 3773/House Bill 5168) to allow inpatient providers to send safety plans for minor patients to designated school staff via the state'funded Connie secure messaging system when parents consent; concerns remained about Connie''s past security and who may access plans.
The House Education Committee approved a joint favorable substitute for House Bill 5168 (LCO 3773) on the secure transmission of safety plans for minor patients from health care providers to schools, sending the measure to the floor with recorded yes and no votes.
Representative Biggins, the bill''s proponent, told the committee the goal is to ensure schools have information to support students returning from inpatient care. "The ultimate goal of the bill is to secure some of that communication between hospitals or inpatient service providers and the school districts so that the schools know how to support kids as they return back to the school," Biggins said.
The substitute would allow medical professionals who create a safety plan to transmit it to a school only after obtaining parental consent at the point of discharge. Biggins said the…
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