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Requires the Department of Health to develop guidelines for school districts to manage students with life-threatening allergies, including individualized health care plans.

Allows school districts to stock epinephrine auto-injectors and provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel who administer the medication to students.

Allows practitioners and pharmacists to prescribe epinephrine auto-injectors to persons at risk of anaphylaxis or those in a position to assist them.

District policy authorizing the acquisition and administration of stock epinephrine, including auto-injectors and nasal sprays, for emergency use.

Regulates the prescribing and dispensing of epinephrine auto-injectors by pharmacists in accordance with state law.

Authorizes school districts to acquire, maintain, and dispense stock epinephrine auto-injectors for students experiencing life-threatening allergic reactions.

This pending legislation would require all schools in Massachusetts to maintain a stock supply of non-patient specific epinephrine auto-injectors to be used in the event of an anaphylactic emergency.

School Epinephrine Mandate Bill

A pending 2025 bill that would transition Mississippi from a permissive stock epinephrine state to a mandatory one, requiring every school building and cafeteria to maintain a supply of auto-injectors.

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

Mandatory Stock Epinephrine Bill

This pending legislation would shift the current 'permissive' stock epinephrine policy to a 'mandatory' one, requiring all school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, and charter schools to maintain epinephrine auto-injectors on site.

Rhode Island School Emergency Medication Mandate

Proposed legislation that would transition Rhode Island from a 'permissive' stocking state to a 'required' stocking state for both epinephrine and undesignated asthma rescue inhalers in schools.

HB 333

Proposed legislation to expand the definition of 'epinephrine auto-injector' to 'injectable epinephrine rescue medication,' potentially allowing for lower-cost delivery methods like vials and syringes.

This pending legislation would require all schools in Massachusetts to maintain a stock supply of non-patient specific epinephrine auto-injectors to be used in the event of an anaphylactic emergency.

School Epinephrine Mandate Bill

A pending 2025 bill that would transition Mississippi from a permissive stock epinephrine state to a mandatory one, requiring every school building and cafeteria to maintain a supply of auto-injectors.

Food Additive Prohibition Bill

Prohibits the use of certain substances in food products and authorizes the State Board of Agriculture to issue orders for violations.

HB 1043

Proposed legislation to update state law to include all FDA-approved epinephrine delivery systems (including nasal sprays) in school settings, rather than just auto-injectors.

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.