Bill Text: TX SB28 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to immunity from liability for public and open-enrollment charter school campuses that maintain a supply of epinephrine auto-injectors for emergency use.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-04 - Referred to Public Education [SB28 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB28-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to immunity from liability for public and open-enrollment charter school campuses that maintain a supply of epinephrine auto-injectors for emergency use.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-04 - Referred to Public Education [SB28 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB28-Introduced.html
84R2280 MEW-D | ||
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 28 |
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relating to immunity from liability for public and open-enrollment | ||
charter school campuses that maintain a supply of anaphylaxis | ||
medicine for emergency use. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 38.0151, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.0151. POLICIES FOR CARE OF CERTAIN STUDENTS AT RISK | ||
FOR ANAPHYLAXIS; MAINTENANCE OF ANAPHYLAXIS MEDICINE SUPPLY. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 38.0151, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (d) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b-1) Each school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
school may maintain at each campus a supply of anaphylaxis medicine | ||
that may be administered to a person on campus experiencing an | ||
anaphylactic reaction. For anaphylaxis medicine to satisfy this | ||
subsection, the medicine may not have an expiration date that has | ||
passed. | ||
(d) This section does not: | ||
(1) waive any [ |
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of a governmental entity or its officers or employees; [ |
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(2) create any liability for or a cause of action | ||
against a governmental entity or its officers or employees; or | ||
(3) waive any immunity from liability under Section | ||
74.151, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, including immunity from | ||
liability to which a school district, open-enrollment charter | ||
school, or district or school employee is entitled under that | ||
section for an act associated with the administration of | ||
anaphylaxis medicine to a person on campus experiencing an | ||
anaphylactic reaction. | ||
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, 2015. |