S1216B1899A06869 NAD:EJH 08/31/20 #90 A06869
AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILL NO. 1216
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE STEPHENS
Printer's No. 1899
Amend Bill, page 1, line 8, by inserting after "year"
; and, in school health services, further providing for
confidentiality, transference and removal of health records
Amend Bill, page 4, by inserting between lines 7 and 8
Section 3. Section 1409 of the act is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
Section 1409. Confidentiality, Transference and Removal of
Health Records.--* * *
(d) The following apply:
(1) The Department of Health or the local board or
department of health shall report to a school entity any
positive or presumptive case of COVID-19 that occurs in a
student or an employee of a school entity, in a provider of
services or contractor who works at the school entity or in an
individual who volunteers at the school entity, including any
individual who coaches or advises an extracurricular activity
sponsored by the school entity. Within twenty-four (24) hours of
receipt of the information of a positive case of COVID-19 in an
employee, a student, a contractor or a volunteer of the school
entity under this paragraph, the school entity shall notify
employees, contractors, volunteers and the parents of the
students who work, volunteer or receive instruction in the same
school building or on the same school property as the COVID-19-
positive employee, contractor, volunteer or student of the
existence of the COVID-19-positive employee, contractor,
volunteer or student. The school entity shall provide
educational support to students who are not permitted to receive
instruction at the school entity due to a positive or
presumptive case of COVID-19 within the school entity.
(2) As used in this subsection, the following words and
phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this paragraph:
"COVID-19" means the novel coronavirus as identified in the
proclamation of disaster emergency issued by the Governor on
March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B. 1644 (March 21, 2020), and
any renewal of the state of disaster emergency.
"Local board or department of health" means as the term is
defined in section 2(f) of the act of April 23, 1956 (1955
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P.L.1510, No.500), known as the "Disease Prevention and Control
Law of 1955."
" School entity" means any school district, intermediate unit,
career and technical center, charter school, regional charter
school, cyber charter school, private or nonpublic school.
Amend Bill, page 4, line 8, by striking out "3" and inserting
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