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1	2		By: Johnson S.B. No. 1325
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed February 14, 2025;
3		-	February 28, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on
4		-	Education K-16; April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable
5		-	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0;
6		-	April 14, 2025, sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
8		-	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1325 By: Bettencourt
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13	7		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
14	8		AN ACT
15		-	relating to contracting by public and private schools for the
16		-	provision of medication for respiratory distress and training in
17		-	administering that medication.
	9	+	relating to the provision of medication for respiratory distress in
	10	+	public and private schools.
18	11		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
19		-	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
	12	+	SECTION 1. Section 38.211, Education Code, is amended by
	13	+	adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as
	14	+	follows:
	15	+	(b-1) The commissioner of state health services or, if the
	16	+	commissioner is not a physician, the chief medical executive of the
	17	+	Department of State Health Services may issue a statewide standing
	18	+	order prescribing medication for respiratory distress to a school
	19	+	district, open-enrollment charter school, or private school.
	20	+	(c) The standing order under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is not
	21	+	required to be patient-specific, and the epinephrine auto-injector
	22	+	or medication for respiratory distress may be administered to a
	23	+	person without a previously established physician-patient
	24	+	relationship.
	25	+	SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
20	26		amended by adding Section 38.2115 to read as follows:
21	27		Sec. 38.2115. CONTRACTING FOR MEDICATION FOR RESPIRATORY
22	28		DISTRESS AND TRAINING. The board of trustees of a school district
23	29		or governing body of an open-enrollment charter school or private
24	30		school may contract with a vendor to provide:
25	31		(1) medication for respiratory distress and related
26	32		equipment to the district or school; and
27	33		(2) training to school personnel and school volunteers
28	34		authorized to administer medication for respiratory distress under
29	35		this subchapter.
30		-	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	36	+	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
31	37		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
32	38		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
33	39		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
34	40		Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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