NURSE Act
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (May 7, 2014)
Nurses for Under-Resourced Schools Everywhere Act or the NURSE Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching demonstration grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) in which the student-to-school nurse ratio in each of their public elementary and secondary schools is 750 or more students to every school nurse to pay a specified federal share of the cost of reducing such ratio.
Gives grant priority to high-need LEAs that demonstrate: (1) the greatest need for new or additional nursing services for their students, or (2) that they do not have a school nurse in any of their schools.
Defines a "high-need LEA" as an LEA for which not fewer than 10,000 or not less than 20% of the children served are from families with incomes below the poverty line.
What just happenedMay 7, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateMay 7, 2014
- May 7, 2014IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- May 7, 2014IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate