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Amending auto-injector language and potentially adding epinephrine to school environments.

Colorado Child Care Health Regulations

Sets health and safety standards for childcare facilities, including protocols for medication storage and emergency response.

Establishes requirements for student self-carry of asthma and anaphylaxis medications and mandates school management plans for food allergies.

Permits schools to maintain a supply of stock emergency-use epinephrine for administration to any student experiencing anaphylaxis.

Requires institutions of higher education to maintain a supply of epinephrine auto-injectors for use in emergency anaphylactic reactions.

Updates school health management protocols for students with asthma and food allergies, including self-administration and staff-administration of medication.

Stock Albuterol in Schools

This bill would amend the Public School Code to allow schools to stock albuterol inhalers and spacers for students who experience respiratory distress. It mirrors the structure of the stock epinephrine law.

Clean Air in Schools Act

Aims to improve indoor air quality in schools to reduce asthma triggers and respiratory distress for students and teachers.

Inhaler Cost Cap Act

Proposed bill to cap the out-of-pocket cost for covered prescription inhalers used for FDA-approved respiratory conditions to ensure affordability for patients.

California SB 1347 authorizing schools to provide emergency stock albuterol inhalers and explicitly authorizing pharmacies to furnish them to local educational agencies.

Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act

Authorizes EPA grants to help communities upgrade air quality systems and protect vulnerable populations, including children with asthma, from hazardous wildfire smoke and extreme heat.

SponsorSen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) (Democratic)

Stock Albuterol Bill

Proposed legislation to allow schools to maintain a stock supply of albuterol and other asthma rescue medications for emergency use by students experiencing respiratory distress.

School Asthma and Allergy Medication Act

Expands the types of medications schools can stock and administer to include short-acting asthma medications (inhalers) and epinephrine delivery systems for students without individual prescriptions.

Nasal Epinephrine Update

Updates statutory language to allow all FDA-approved epinephrine delivery systems, including recently approved nasal sprays, to be used in schools and other settings.

Nasal Epinephrine Access Bill

Updates the legal definition of 'epinephrine auto-injector' to 'epinephrine delivery system' to ensure that new FDA-approved formulations, such as nasal sprays, can be legally stocked and administered in schools and other public entities.

This bill broadens the mechanisms permitted for the emergency administration of epinephrine in schools, institutions of higher education, and youth camps.

Stock Albuterol in Schools

This bill would amend the Public School Code to allow schools to stock albuterol inhalers and spacers for students who experience respiratory distress. It mirrors the structure of the stock epinephrine law.

Epinephrine Nasal Spray and Stock Mandate Bill

Proposed legislation to require schools to stock epinephrine, including newly approved nasal spray delivery systems, and to ensure school bus drivers and monitors are trained in their administration.