"COPD Awareness Month Act"
AN ACT relating to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Summary
Designates November as "COPD Awareness Month" and encourages the Department for Public Health to promote awareness and screening for respiratory diseases.
Who This Bill Serves & Who's Backing It
Core Patient Populations
People with COPD.
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Votes & Legislative History
Emergency Allergy Treatment Act
Prescription injectable epinephrine devices and bronchodilator rescue inhalers
Allows health-care practitioners to prescribe epinephrine and bronchodilators to authorized entities and permits trained individuals to administer them in emergencies.
Possession and use of medications to treat documented medical conditions
Authorizes students with documented medical conditions to possess and use epinephrine and asthma medications at school and encourages schools to maintain stock epinephrine.
Use of epinephrine auto-injectors in child-care centers and family child-care homes
Permits child-care centers to maintain and administer epinephrine auto-injectors and requires written emergency action plans and parental notification.
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