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| 1 | 1 | 89R5245 MEW-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo S.B. No. 611 | |
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| 7 | 7 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 8 | 8 | AN ACT | |
| 9 | 9 | relating to a statewide standing order prescribing epinephrine | |
| 10 | 10 | auto-injectors to public and private schools. | |
| 11 | 11 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 12 | 12 | SECTION 1. Section 38.211, Education Code, is amended by | |
| 13 | 13 | adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as | |
| 14 | 14 | follows: | |
| 15 | 15 | (b-1) The commissioner of state health services or, if the | |
| 16 | 16 | commissioner is not a physician, the chief medical executive of the | |
| 17 | 17 | Department of State Health Services may issue a statewide standing | |
| 18 | 18 | order prescribing epinephrine auto-injectors to a school district, | |
| 19 | 19 | open-enrollment charter school, or private school. | |
| 20 | 20 | (c) The standing order under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is not | |
| 21 | 21 | required to be patient-specific, and the epinephrine auto-injector | |
| 22 | 22 | or medication for respiratory distress may be administered to a | |
| 23 | 23 | person without a previously established physician-patient | |
| 24 | 24 | relationship. | |
| 25 | 25 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 26 | 26 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 27 | 27 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 28 | 28 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 29 | 29 | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |