Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 169 · 75 active provisions
Each local and regional board of education shall maintain the facilities under its jurisdiction in accordance with the applicable public health statutes and regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Public Health.
(a) Not later than January 1, 2007, the Department of Education shall (1) develop guidelines for addressing the physical health needs of students in a comprehensive manner that coordinates services, including services provided by municipal parks and recreation departments, and (2) make available to each local and regio…
For the school year commencing July 1, 2017, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall complete the Health Services Program Information Survey and submit the survey to the Department of Education, in a form and manner prescribed by the department.
Not later than July 1, 2020, the State Board of Education, in collaboration with a state-wide association that represents school counselors, shall adopt guidelines for a comprehensive school counseling program. Such guidelines shall ensure that all students have access to a comprehensive school counseling program that…
Section 10-204 is repealed, effective July 1, 1998.
(a) Each local or regional board of education, or similar body governing a nonpublic school or schools, shall require each child to be protected by adequate immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, haemophilus influenzae type B and any other vaccine required by the sc…
Section 10-204b is repealed.
No municipality, district health department or local or regional board of education which causes an immunization required by state law to be administered shall be liable for civil damages resulting from an adverse reaction to a nondefective vaccine.
Any student who is exempt from the immunization requirements set forth in section 10-204a on religious grounds shall continue to be exempt from such requirements on religious grounds if such student transfers from one public or private school in the state to another public or private school in the state under the juris…
Each local or regional board of education of any town having a population of ten thousand or more shall, and each local or regional board of education of any town having a population of fewer than ten thousand may, appoint one or more legally qualified practitioners of medicine as school medical advisors. The advisor o…
(a) Each local or regional board of education shall require each pupil enrolled in the public schools to have health assessments pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such assessments shall be conducted by (1) a legally qualified practitioner of medicine, (2) an advanced practice registered nurse or registered nu…
Each local or regional board of education shall provide for health assessments pursuant to subsection (c) of section 10-206 without charge to all pupils whose parents or guardians meet the eligibility requirements for free and reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program or for free milk under the specia…
Each director of a Head Start program shall require each child attending such program to be tested for lead levels in his blood after consultation with the school medical advisor and the local health department or in the case of a regional board of education, each local health department, that such tests are necessary.
Each local or regional board of education shall require each pupil enrolled in the schools under its jurisdiction to annually report whether the pupil has health insurance. The Commissioner of Social Services, or the commissioner's designee, shall provide information to each local or regional board of education on stat…
(a) Each local or regional board of education shall request that each child enrolled in the public schools submit to an oral health assessment pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such oral health assessment shall be conducted by (1) a dentist licensed pursuant to chapter 379, (2) a dental hygienist licensed pur…
(a) As used in this section, “local educational agency” or “LEA” has the same meaning as provided in 20 USC 1401, as amended from time to time. (b) To the extent permissible under federal law, and subject to federal approval and within available funding specifically appropriated for this purpose, the Commissioner of So…
(a) There is established an interagency coalition to coordinate and make recommendations concerning maximizing federal funding for Medicaid-eligible health care services in public schools in the state. (b) The coalition shall convene not later than sixty days after May 30, 2024, and shall meet at least quarterly. The c…
To the extent permissible under federal law, and subject to federal approval and within available funding specifically appropriated for this purpose, the Commissioner of Social Services shall amend the Medicaid state plan to provide Medicaid coverage for health care services provided to an eligible student enrolled in…
(a) Each school medical advisor shall work with the local or regional board of education that appointed such school medical advisor and the board of health or health department for the school district under the jurisdiction of such board to (1) plan and administer the health program for each school, (2) advise on the p…
No provision of section 10-206 or 10-214 shall be construed to require any pupil to undergo a physical or medical examination or treatment, or to be compelled to receive medical instruction, if the parent or legal guardian of such pupil or the pupil, if such pupil is an emancipated minor or is eighteen years of age or…
Each local and regional board of education shall honor written notice submitted by a licensed practitioner which places physical restrictions upon any pupil enrolled in the public schools of such board of education. For purposes of this section, licensed practitioner means any person who is licensed to practice under c…
(a) No record of any medical examination made or filed under the provisions of sections 10-205, 10-206, 10-207 and 10-214, psychological examination made under the supervision or at the request of a board of education, or oral health assessment conducted under section 10-206d shall be open to public inspection. (b) Eac…
Subject to the provisions of section 19a-216 notice of any disease or defect from which any child is found by such school medical advisor to be suffering shall be given to the parent or guardian of such child, with such advice or order relating thereto as such medical advisor deems advisable, and such parent or guardia…
Section 10-211 is repealed.
(a) As used in this section and section 10-211b, “designated staff member” means a teacher, school administrator, school counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, physician or school paraeducator employed by a local or regional board of education or working in a public middle school or high school. (b) Not later t…