By: Johnson S.B. No. 1325
(In the Senate - Filed February 14, 2025;
February 28, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education K-16; April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0;
April 14, 2025, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1325 By: Bettencourt
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to contracting by public and private schools for the
provision of medication for respiratory distress and training in
administering that medication.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 38.2115 to read as follows:
Sec. 38.2115. CONTRACTING FOR MEDICATION FOR RESPIRATORY
DISTRESS AND TRAINING. The board of trustees of a school district
or governing body of an open-enrollment charter school or private
school may contract with a vendor to provide:
(1) medication for respiratory distress and related
equipment to the district or school; and
(2) training to school personnel and school volunteers
authorized to administer medication for respiratory distress under
this subchapter.
SECTION 2. 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.
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