Bill Text: IL SB2235 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Care of Students with Diabetes Act. Provides that a school shall maintain a supply of glucagon in any secure location that is immediately accessible to a school nurse or a delegated care aide if a student diagnosed with diabetes attends the school. Provides that schools shall obtain a prescription for glucagon, even if the school is not required to maintain the glucagon.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB2235 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2235-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2235 Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 145/27
Amends the Care of Students with Diabetes Act. Provides that a school shall maintain a supply of glucagon in any secure location that is immediately accessible to a school nurse or a delegated care aide if a student diagnosed with diabetes attends the school. Provides that schools shall obtain a prescription for glucagon, even if the school is not required to maintain the glucagon.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Care of Students with Diabetes Act is
amended by changing Section 27 as follows:
(105 ILCS 145/27)
Sec. 27. Undesignated glucagon. A school may maintain a
supply of glucagon in any secure location that is immediately
accessible to a school nurse or a delegated care aide;
however, a school shall maintain a supply of glucagon in any
secure location that is immediately accessible to a school
nurse or a delegated care aide if a student diagnosed with
diabetes attends the school. Schools shall obtain a
prescription for glucagon, even if the school is not required
to maintain the glucagon. A physician, a physician assistant
who has prescriptive authority under Section 7.5 of the
Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987, or an advanced
practice registered nurse who has prescriptive authority under
Section 65-40 of the Nurse Practice Act may prescribe
undesignated glucagon in the name of the school to be
maintained for use when necessary. Any supply of undesignated
glucagon must be maintained in accordance with the
manufacturer's instructions. A school nurse or delegated care

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aide may administer undesignated glucagon if he or she is
authorized to administer the undesignated glucagon through a
student's diabetes care plan and if the student's prescribed
glucagon is not available on-site or has expired. Immediately
after the administration of undesignated glucagon, a school
must notify the school nurse, unless the school nurse was the
one administering the undesignated glucagon, and the student's
parent or guardian or emergency contact, if known, and health
care provider of its use.
(Source: P.A. 101-428, eff. 8-19-19.)