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Senate Bill 66 |
Senate Author: Hinojosa |
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Effective: 5-28-15 |
House Sponsor: Crownover et al. |
Senate Bill 66 amends the Education Code to authorize each school district and open-enrollment charter school to adopt and implement a policy regarding the maintenance, administration, and disposal of epinephrine auto-injectors at each campus in the district or school. Epinephrine auto-injectors are intended to treat anaphylaxis, a sudden, severe, and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. The bill makes a district or charter school that adopts a policy responsible for training school personnel and school volunteers in the administration of an epinephrine auto-injector, provides authority for the prescription of the auto-injectors in the name of a district or charter school, and provides for notice to parents regarding an adopted policy. A person who in good faith takes, or fails to take, any action with regard to the maintenance, administration, and disposal of epinephrine auto-injectors is immune from civil or criminal liability or disciplinary action resulting from that action or failure to act.
Senate Bill 66 also sets out a reporting requirement applicable after a school personnel member or school volunteer administers an epinephrine auto-injector in accordance with school policy and requires the commissioner of state health services to establish an advisory committee to examine and review the administration of epinephrine auto-injectors to a person experiencing an anaphylactic reaction on a campus of a school district or an open-enrollment charter school.