Bill Text: WV SB42 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permitting school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists on or near school premises
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - To Health and Human Resources [SB42 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2016-SB42-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2016 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 42
By Senators Stollings, Beach, Plymale, Blair, Gaunch, Kessler, Snyder, Carmichael, Williams and Miller
[Introduced January 13,
2016;
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-46-7, relating to permitting school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists on or near school premises.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-46-7, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 46. ACCESS TO OPIOID ANTAGONISTS ACT.
§16-46-7. School nurse access to opioid antagonists.
Any person employed as a school nurse and properly licensed by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses may possess an opioid antagonist on or near school premises and administer the opioid antagonist if he or she believes in good faith that a student or other individual at the school is suffering from an opiate-related overdose.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists at school.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
