Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Permits school boards to employ advanced practice nurse as medical inspector.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the employment of medical inspectors by local boards of education and amending N.J.S.18A:40-1.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.18A:40-1 is amended to read as follows:
Every board of education shall employ one or more physicians, licensed to practice medicine and surgery within the [state] State, or one or more advanced practice nurses licensed within the State, to be known as the medical inspector or medical inspectors, and any board, not furnishing nursing services under a contract pursuant to [section 18A:40-3.1] N.J.S.18A:40-3.1, shall employ one or more school nurses, and it may also employ one or more optometrists, licensed to practice optometry within the state, to be known as the school vision examiner or school vision examiners, and the board shall fix their salaries and terms of office.
Every board of education shall adopt rules, subject to the approval of the state board, for the government of such employees.
(cf: N.J.S.18A:40-1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill permits a local board of education to employ an advanced practice nurse in order to comply with requirements under current law to appoint a medical inspector for the school district. Under current law, every board of education is required to employ at least one physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery within the State as its medical inspector. This bill amends current law to provide that a board of education will employ a licensed physician or an advanced practice nurse as its medical inspector.