2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 34 - Student Diabetes Management
Section 22-34-2 - Definitions.
As used in the Student Diabetes Management Act:
A. "diabetes" means type one or type two diabetes mellitus; complications related to diabetes mellitus; or prediabetes;
B. "diabetes care personnel" means a school employee who volunteers to be trained and is trained in accordance with Section 3 of the Student Diabetes Management Act;
C. "diabetes medical management plan" means a document that a student's personal health care practitioner and parent or guardian develops that sets out the health services that the student needs at school and that is signed by the student's health care practitioner and parent or guardian;
D. "governing body" means:
(1) the school board of a school district;
(2) the entity that governs a state-chartered or locally chartered charter school; or
(3) the entity that governs a private school;
E. "health care practitioner" means a person licensed to provide health care in the ordinary course of business;
F. "school" means an elementary, secondary, middle, junior high or high school or any combination of those, including a public school, state-chartered or locally chartered charter school or private school that students attend in person;
G. "school employee" means a person employed by a school, a person employed by the department of health or a local health department or by the public education department who is assigned to a school or a contractor designated to provide diabetes management services at a school pursuant to the Student Diabetes Management Act; and
H. "school nurse" means a person who:
(1) is a nurse who is authorized pursuant to the Nursing Practice Act to practice as a professional registered nurse;
(2) is licensed by the public education department and the board of nursing as a school nurse; and
(3) provides services as a school nurse at a school.
History: Laws 2019, ch. 22, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 22 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 14, 2019, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.
