Urge your representative to vote NO on SB 287-another bill with unintended consequences! It may be on the House floor TODAY (Monday, March 25th).

See more information from our friends at Educate Lawrence: “House Sub for SB 287 would hamper both the work of school nurses and school mental health providers. It is written to prohibit providers from administering medication, diagnostic tests, or conducting ongoing behavioral health treatments to a minor in a school facility without parental consent, but the unintended consequences could keep school nurses from being able to assess the needs of our children in the school setting.

The bill was written because of an incident a few years ago when a Physician’s Assistant prescribed birth control to a 16-year-old (not illegal) without the knowledge of the parent. The clinic where it happened is associated with a school campus and thus this bill was written to limit healthcare providers in the school setting. During a ‘round table discussion’ of the bill health care associations, including school nurses, indicated that the bill was too broad

Please write your Representative and ask them to support our school nurses, not this poorly written bill.

You can find your legislator here: https://pluralpolicy.com/open/“

Originally published on Facebook on March 25, 2024.