HB3020 - Relating to statewide standing orders prescribing epinephrine auto-injectors, medication for respiratory distress, and opioid antagonists to public and private schools.

  89R8204 MEW-D     By: Howard H.B. No. 3020       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to statewide standing orders prescribing epinephrine   auto-injectors, medication for respiratory distress, and opioid   antagonists to public and private schools.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 38.211, Education Code, is amended by   adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as   follows:           (b-1)     The commissioner of state health services or, if the   commissioner is not a physician, the chief medical executive of the   Department of State Health Services shall issue statewide standing   orders prescribing epinephrine auto-injectors and medication for   respiratory distress to a school district, open-enrollment charter   school, or private school.          (c)  The standing order under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is not   required to be patient-specific, and the epinephrine auto-injector   or medication for respiratory distress may be administered to a   person without a previously established physician-patient   relationship.          SECTION 2.  Section 38.225, Education Code, is amended by   adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as   follows:           (b-1)     The commissioner of state health services or, if the   commissioner is not a physician, the chief medical executive of the   Department of State Health Services shall issue a statewide   standing order prescribing opioid antagonists to a school district,   open-enrollment charter school, or private school.          (c)  The standing order under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is not   required to be patient-specific, and the opioid antagonist may be   administered to a person without a previously established   physician-patient relationship.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.