Title: Pandemic School Nurse Training to Protect Students and Communities Act of 2020
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Pandemic School Nurse Training to Protect Students and Communities Act of 2020
This bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, state and local education agencies to train elementary and secondary school nurses to serve as first responders and crisis managers in the event of a biological or chemical attack at a school or an outbreak of pandemic influenza among individuals under their care.
The training must prepare school nurses to (1) protect and preserve life; (2) notify public health authorities to help contain or mitigate the effects of an attack or outbreak; and (3) take other appropriate and feasible actions, such as preserve evidence of an attack.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6272 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6272

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible entities to train 
     elementary and secondary school nurses on how to respond to a 
biological or chemical attack or an outbreak of pandemic influenza in a 
                 school building or on school grounds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2020

 Ms. Jackson Lee 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 entities to train 
     elementary and secondary school nurses on how to respond to a 
biological or chemical attack or an outbreak of pandemic influenza in a 
                 school building or on school grounds.

    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 ``Pandemic School Nurse Training to 
Protect Students and Communities Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROGRAM.

    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--TRAINING NURSES FOR RESPONDING TO BIOTERRORISM AND PANDEMIC 
                               INFLUENZA

``SEC. 875. GRANTS FOR RESPONDING TO BIOTERRORISM AND PANDEMIC 
              INFLUENZA.

    ``(a) Grant Program.--The Secretary may award grants to and enter 
into contracts with eligible entities to train school nurses to serve 
as first responders and crisis managers in the event of--
            ``(1) a biological or chemical attack, including a 
        terrorist attack, affecting individuals in a school building or 
        on school grounds; or
            ``(2) an outbreak of pandemic influenza among students, 
        faculty, or other individuals under their care.
    ``(b) Required Elements of Training.--Any training which is funded, 
in whole or in part, under this section shall prepare school nurses--
            ``(1) to take such measures as may be necessary, 
        particularly in the critical early stages of an attack or 
        outbreak described in subsection (a), to protect and preserve 
        life;
            ``(2) as part of crisis management, to notify such public 
        health authorities as may be appropriate to help contain or 
        mitigate the effects of an attack or outbreak described in 
        subsection (a); and
            ``(3) to take such other actions as may be appropriate and 
        feasible, such as, in the case of a biological or chemical 
        attack, the preservation of evidence.
    ``(c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            ``(1) Eligible entities.--The term `eligible entities' 
        shall have the same meaning as is given such term in section 
        801, and includes--
                    ``(A) a State educational agency (as defined in 
                section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
                Act of 1965); and
                    ``(B) a local educational agency (as defined in 
                section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
                Act of 1965).
            ``(2) School.--The term `school' means--
                    ``(A) an elementary school (as defined in section 
                8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
                1965); and
                    ``(B) a secondary school (as defined in section 
                8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
                1965).
            ``(3) School grounds.--The term `school grounds' means the 
        area outside of a school building that is controlled, managed, 
        or owned by the school or school district.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 
for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2020.''.
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