Bill Summary for H 842 (2025-2026)
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Apr 9 2025
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AN ACT TO CLARIFY REQUIREMENTS FOR HEALTH SCREENINGS IN SCHOOLS.Intro. by Helfrich, Carney, Crawford, Greenfield.
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Bill summary
Amends GS 115C-76.45(a) to clarify that health care screenings in public school units are not health care services offered in schools. Adds requirement to notify parents of health care screenings as specified in new GS 115C-76.46.
Enacts new GS 115C-76.46 to define health care screenings as vision, hearing, or dental screenings, or developmental screenings for cognition, language and motor function on entry to kindergarten as specified in GS 115C-83.5. Allows public school units to conduct health care screenings without parental consent as long as the schools provide parents notice of all screenings at the beginning of the school year and provide parents the results of those screenings for their children.