Bill Text: TX HB2995 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of medication for respiratory distress in public and private schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Filed [HB2995 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2995-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2995 | |
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| relating to the provision of medication for respiratory distress in | ||
| 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 may issue a statewide standing | ||
| order prescribing 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. Subchapter E, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.2115 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.2115. CONTRACTING FOR MEDICATION FOR RESPIRATORY | ||
| DISTRESS AND TRAINING. The board of trustees of a school district | ||
| or governing body of an open-enrollment charter school or private | ||
| school may contract with a vendor to provide: | ||
| (1) medication for respiratory distress and related | ||
| equipment to the district or school; and | ||
| (2) training to school personnel and school volunteers | ||
| authorized to administer medication for respiratory distress under | ||
| this subchapter. | ||
| 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. | ||
