Howard Bill Gives Schools A Statewide Prescription For Emergency Drugs

The text as introduced · 296 words

89R8204 MEW-D

By: Howard
H.B. No. 3020

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to statewide standing orders prescribing epinephrine

auto-injectors, medication for respiratory distress, and opioid

antagonists to public and private schools.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 38.211, Education Code, is amended by

adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as

follows:

(b-1) The commissioner of state health services or, if the

commissioner is not a physician, the chief medical executive of the

Department of State Health Services shall issue statewide standing

orders prescribing epinephrine auto-injectors and medication for

respiratory distress to a school district, open-enrollment charter

school, or private school.

(c) The standing order under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is not

required to be patient-specific, and the epinephrine auto-injector

or medication for respiratory distress may be administered to a

person without a previously established physician-patient

relationship.

SECTION 2. Section 38.225, Education Code, is amended by

adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as

follows:

(b-1) The commissioner of state health services or, if the

commissioner is not a physician, the chief medical executive of the

Department of State Health Services shall issue a statewide

standing order prescribing opioid antagonists to a school district,

open-enrollment charter school, or private school.

(c) The standing order under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is not

required to be patient-specific, and the opioid antagonist may be

administered to a person without a previously established

physician-patient relationship.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.