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Allows health care practitioners to prescribe epinephrine auto-injectors for authorized entities.

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.

Kansas Stock Epinephrine and Albuterol Law

Allows public and accredited nonpublic schools to maintain a stock of epinephrine auto-injectors and asthma medication (albuterol) for emergency use. It requires schools that choose to stock these to have a protocol and provides legal immunity to staff who administer the medication in good faith during an emergency.

Allows schools to maintain a supply of epinephrine auto-injectors for emergency use on students experiencing anaphylaxis.

Needle Free Epinephrine Bill

Proposed legislation to update existing statutes to explicitly allow the use of epinephrine nasal sprays in addition to auto-injectors in school settings.

Vermont has introduced entity stock epinephrine legislation that is currently pending in the state legislature.

Dillon's Law

Provides legal protection to trained Good Samaritans who administer epinephrine in emergencies, particularly in schools, to reduce preventable deaths from anaphylaxis.

SponsorRep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) (Bipartisan)

This bill updates Vermont law to allow schools to maintain a stock supply of intranasal epinephrine.

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.