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Allowing schools to voluntarily maintain and use epinephrine auto-injectors.

Authorizing EMTs to administer epinephrine to allergy attack victims.

Updates school health codes to permit the stocking and administration of any FDA-approved epinephrine formulation, such as nasal sprays, for treating anaphylaxis.

Mandates food allergy management, staff training, and individual emergency plans for licensed West Virginia child care centers.

Allows public, private, and parochial schools to stock epinephrine auto-injectors and permits trained personnel to administer them in emergencies.

Requires food allergen posters in restaurants and employee allergen understanding.

Maryland School Epinephrine Law

Authorizes public schools to stock and administer undesignated epinephrine auto-injectors to students perceived to be in anaphylaxis, requiring staff training and emergency protocols.

Maryland Nonpublic School Epinephrine Law

Permits nonpublic schools to establish policies for the administration of stock epinephrine to students perceived to be in anaphylaxis.

Student Self-Administration Law

Ensures that school districts cannot prohibit students with life-threatening allergies or respiratory diseases from carrying and using their own prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors or inhalers.

School Medication Administration Regulations

Allows school nurses to delegate the administration of epinephrine to trained unlicensed staff and permits schools to maintain a stock supply of epinephrine for use in life-threatening emergencies for any student.

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.

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)

A bill concerning the reporting requirements for Alpha-gal syndrome in Illinois.

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.

Equips first responders with epinephrine and allows bulk purchasing for municipalities.

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

Enables trained and authorized school personnel to administer epinephrine.