House Joint Resolution No. 46 adopted by the General Assembly in 1974 reads in part as follows: "Resolved by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the State Board of Education and the State Board of Health are directed to jointly study the need for nursing services that are essential to meet the health needs of students in public schools and to determine the appropriate level of such services for the school divisions in the Commonwealth. The Boards shall determine the feasibility and cost of providing the nursing services. The Boards shall complete their study and make their report of findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly not later than December one, nineteen hundred seventy-four."