Outline of the state of Georgia
State
Georgia
Required

Category
Preventive Health Screenings in ES

Category
Preventive Health Screenings in ES

State law requires a health screening prior to entry (which may or may not specifically include vision, hearing, dental, or BMI exams).

Georgia Compiled Rules & Regulations 160-4-2-.12. Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Program Plan

(e) Fitness assessment program -- annual assessment measuring and reporting health related fitness in the areas of aerobic capacity, body composition, flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance.

Policy Type
Regulation

Georgia Compiled Rules & Regulations 160-4-2-.12. Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Program Plan

(g) Beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, each local school system shall conduct an annual fitness assessment program, as approved and funded by the State Board of Education, one time each school year for students in grades one through 12, to be conducted only during a physical education course that is taught by a certificated physical education teacher in which a student is enrolled. Such assessments shall include methods deemed by the State Board of Education as appropriate to as certain levels of student physical fitness. Each local school system shall report the individual results of the fitness assessment to the parent or guardian of each student assessed and the aggregate results of the fitness assessments by school to the State Board of Education annually in a format approved and funded by the State Board of Education. The minimum required contents of the report shall be determined by the State Board of Education.

Policy Type
Regulation

Georgia Compiled Rules & Regulations 511-5-6-.02. Filing of Certificates

(1) The parent or guardian of a child being admitted for the first time to a public school shall furnish to the school authorities a properly executed Department of Public Health Form 3300: Certificate of Vision, Hearing, Dental and Nutrition Screening. The Certificate shall be subject to audit by the Department and by the local Health Department.

(2) The vision, hearing, dental, and nutrition screenings reported on the Certificate must have been conducted within one year prior to the time that the child is admitted for the first time to a public school.

Policy Type
Regulation

New Student Requirements

Site provides information on certification of eye, ear, dental and nutrition examinations on the Georgia Department of Human Resources Form 3300 for admittance to Georgia public schools.

Policy Type
Non-codified

Official Code of Georgia Annotated 20-2-770. Rules and regulations for nutritional screening and eye ear and dental examinations of students

The Department of Public Health is authorized and directed, in cooperation with the State Board of Education, to promulgate rules and regulations to provide for a nutritional screening and eye, ear, and dental examinations for eachstudent entering the first grade in the public schools of this state and at such other times as such rules and regulations shall provide. Such rules and regulations shall provide procedures for local boards of health to provide for such examinations and screenings and for the issuance of a certificate to the parent or parents of children entering the first grade indicating that such examinations and screenings have been made, and such certificates shall be turned in to the school officials atthe time of enrollment. Such rules and regulations shall further provide that the examinations and screenings required inthis Code section may be made by private practitioners and authorize the certification provided for in this Code section by such private practitioners.

Policy Type
Statute

Official Code of Georgia Annotated 20-2-777. Annual fitness assessment program; reporting and compliance

(a) (1) Beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, each local school system shall conduct an annual fitness assessment program, as approved and funded by the State Board of Education, one time each school year for students in grades one through 12, to be conducted only during a physical education course that is taught by a certificated physical education teacher in which a student is enrolled. Such assessments shall include methods deemed by the State Board of Education as appropriate to as certain levels of student physical fitness. Each local school system shall report the individual results of the fitness assessment to the parent or guardian of each student assessed and the aggregate results of the fitness assessments by school to the State Board of Education annually in a format approved and funded by the State Board of Education. The minimum required contents of the report shall be determined by the State Board of Education.

Policy Type
Statute