Bill Text: HI HB2185 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To School Based Health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-16 - Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) DeCoite, Ing, Nakamura, Onishi, Woodson excused (5). [HB2185 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB2185-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO SCHOOL BASED HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION
1. The legislature finds that chronic
absenteeism, poor health, and delayed or limited access to health care and
preventive health services continue to hinder students' academic success and
schools' abilities to meet the needs of the whole child. The legislature also recognizes that school based
health programs support the department of education in achieving student,
school, and system success by providing school health services to public school
children in complex areas across the State.
The
legislature further finds that the department of education works with other
state agencies, partnering health care and education organizations and interest
groups, and families to improve attendance, behavior, and course marks. These improvements are achieved by
partnerships to improve access to and coordinate wrap-around services and
address non-school factors that impede student success.
Furthermore,
the legislature acknowledges that vision, oral health, and behavioral health
services are in high demand for school-aged children. The legislature recognizes that Hawaii has the
highest prevalence of tooth decay in third grade children with seventy-one per
cent of children affected, which is well beyond the national average of fifty-two
per cent. Of high school children, twenty-nine
per cent have not visited the dentist in the past twelve months. Additionally, more than sixty per cent of
children in this State lack protective dental sealants which are cost effective
means to prevent tooth decay. Similarly,
approximately one in five children will naturally need glasses to participate
fully in school, yet thirty-five per cent of children have never seen an eye
care professional.
Moreover,
the legislature recognizes that one out of seven children ages two years old to
eight years old are diagnosed with a mental, behavioral, or developmental
disorder and that between five per cent to nine per cent of children ages five
years old to seventeen years old have a serious emotional disturbance. The legislature notes that a significant gap
in the current Hawaii health care system is effective awareness, diagnosis, and
treatment of behavioral health conditions at all levels, including for school-aged
children.
The purpose of this Act is to establish a position within the department of education to:
(1) Elevate the coordination of school based health services within the department of education; and
(2) Facilitate the establishment of evidence-based oral, vision, and behavioral health screening and assessment programs within the department of education to address and improve the current health and academic outcomes for Hawaii's school-aged children.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) school health services coordinator position within the department of education.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 to develop an evidence-based vision screening and eye assessment system for children in pre-kindergarten through grade twelve.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 to develop an evidence-based oral screening and assessment system for children in pre-kindergarten through grade twelve.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 to develop an evidence-based behavioral health screening and assessment system for children in pre-kindergarten through grade twelve.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION
8. This Act shall take effect on July 1,
3000.
Report Title:
School-Based Health; School Health Coordinator; Department of Education; Vision Screening and Assessment; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds for a position to increase school-health coordination in the Department of Education. Establishes evidence-based screenings and assessment for school vision, oral health, and behavioral health. Effective 7/1/3000. (HB2185 HD2)
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