Bill Text: TX HB3020 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to statewide standing orders prescribing epinephrine auto-injectors, medication for respiratory distress, and opioid antagonists to public and private schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-19 - Filed [HB3020 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3020-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 3020 | |
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| relating to statewide standing orders prescribing epinephrine | ||
| auto-injectors, medication for respiratory distress, and opioid | ||
| antagonists to 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 shall issue statewide standing | ||
| orders prescribing epinephrine auto-injectors and 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. Section 38.225, 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 shall issue a statewide | ||
| standing order prescribing opioid antagonists 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 opioid antagonist may be | ||
| administered to a person without a previously established | ||
| physician-patient relationship. | ||
| 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. | ||
