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One School, One Nurse Act of 2025
To authorize the Secretary of Education to carry out a grant program to assist local educational agencies with ensuring that each elementary and secondary school has at least one registered nurse on staff.
- Introduced
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- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
Summary
One School, One Nurse Act of 2025
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award competitive grants to eligible entities for recruiting, hiring, and retaining school nurses. An eligible entity is a local educational agency (LEA) or a partnership between a state educational agency and a consortium of LEAs in the state.
Further, ED must specify in regulation the recommended nurse-to-student ratios for elementary and secondary schools.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Jan 9, 2025 Introduced in House
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