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Food Allergy Awareness in Restaurants and Menus Act

Updates Massachusetts food allergy safety protocols by requiring food service establishments to maintain allergen-aware procedures and clear customer notifications regarding major food allergens.

Requires school districts and private schools to maintain a comprehensive Food Allergy Management and Prevention Plan to address safety and training.

This bill increases access to epinephrine auto-injectors in public venues by allowing authorized entities to stock and administer them.

Allows police to receive, possess, and administer epinephrine auto-injectors.

Enables trained and authorized school personnel to administer epinephrine.

Ensures safe medication administration including epinephrine in emergencies.

Elijah's Law

Requires the state to establish a comprehensive anaphylaxis policy for all childcare facilities. It mandates the development of emergency protocols, including guidelines for weight-based epinephrine administration, staff training, and individual emergency healthcare plans for children with known allergies.

Epinephrine Modernization Act

Amends existing school health laws to clarify that 'epinephrine' includes both auto-injectable devices and nasal spray formats, ensuring schools can stock modern delivery methods for treating anaphylaxis.

Massachusetts Stock Epinephrine Bill

This pending bill would require all schools to maintain a stock supply of non-patient specific epinephrine auto-injectors. It mandates that the Department of Public Health create regulations for storage in unlocked locations and staff training.

Epinephrine Delivery Systems Update

A pending bill that updates existing school health statutes to replace the term 'epinephrine auto-injectors' with 'epinephrine delivery systems.' This change is intended to allow schools to stock newer, needle-free epinephrine options such as nasal sprays.

School Epinephrine Administration Expansion Bill

Legislative bill to explicitly codify into the General Laws the authority for school districts and non-public schools to register to train unlicensed school personnel to administer epinephrine auto-injectors during school hours and school-sponsored events when a nurse is not immediately available.

Elijah's Law

Establishes 'Elijah's Law' for Missouri, requiring licensed child care facilities to adopt allergy prevention and emergency response policies, and explicitly adds child care facilities to authorized entities allowed to acquire and stock epinephrine auto-injectors.

Expands coverage under Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to include medically necessary food and associated equipment and supplies. Defines medically necessary food as specially formulated and processed products (e.g., nutritional formulas) prescribed by health care practitioners for individuals with special dietary requirements due to certain digestive or metabolic disorders or conditions.

SponsorRep. James P. McGovern [D-MA-2] (Democratic)

Mandates the Cabinet for Health and Family Services add alpha-gal syndrome to the state list of noncommunicable diseases that healthcare providers and facilities must report.

Allows police to receive, possess, and administer epinephrine auto-injectors.

Enables trained and authorized school personnel to administer epinephrine.

Ensures safe medication administration including epinephrine in emergencies.

Requires health plans to provide coverage for medically necessary food and amino acid-based formulas for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and FPIES.