General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5380
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 953
*00953*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. ARCONTI, 109th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 5380
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 953
*00953*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. ARCONTI, 109th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY OF EPINEPHRINE IN PUBLIC VENUES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to authorize public venues, including, but not limited to, restaurants, youth organizations' sports facilities, theme parks, sports arenas and day care facilities, to stock and make available trained nonmedical staff to administer emergency epinephrine in cartridge injectors to individuals who are experiencing anaphylactic symptoms.
Statement of Purpose:
To make emergency epinephrine in cartridge injectors more widely available to people who suffer anaphylactic symptoms in public venues.