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Senate Bill 629 |
Senate Author: Menéndez et al. |
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Effective: 6-18-23 |
House Sponsor: Talarico et al. |
Senate Bill 629 amends the Education Code and Government Code to require each public school district to adopt and implement a policy regarding the maintenance, administration, and disposal of opioid antagonists at each campus in the district that serves students in grades 6 through 12 and sets out provisions regarding the content of such a policy. The bill provides for such a policy to be adopted at district campuses serving grade levels below grade 6 and at campuses of an open‑enrollment charter school or private school. The bill authorizes the use of money from the opioid abatement account to support efforts to prevent or reduce deaths from opioid overdoses or other opioid‑related harms through increasing the availability or distribution of opioid antagonists by schools under such a policy.
Senate Bill 629 makes each district, charter school, or private school that adopts the policy responsible for training school personnel and volunteers in the administration of an opioid antagonist and requires the training to include specified information on recognizing and responding to an opioid‑related drug overdose. The bill provides for a physician or person who has been delegated prescriptive authority in accordance with state law to prescribe opioid antagonists in the name of a district, charter school, or private school and to provide a general standing order for the administration of the opioid antagonist. The bill grants a person who in good faith takes, or fails to take, any action regarding the maintenance and administration of opioid antagonists immunity from civil or criminal liability or disciplinary action and grants to a district, charter school, or private school and school personnel and school volunteers immunity from suit resulting from an act, or failure to act, under the bill's provisions.