Bill Text: TX HB3734 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an opioid-related drug overdose response protocol and training on the administration of an opioid antagonist for public school personnel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB3734 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3734-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 3734 | |
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| relating to an opioid-related drug overdose response protocol and | ||
| training on the administration of an opioid antagonist for public | ||
| school personnel. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.0301 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.0301. OPIOID-RELATED DRUG OVERDOSE RESPONSE | ||
| PROTOCOL. (a) In this section, "opioid antagonist" and | ||
| "opioid-related drug overdose" have the meanings assigned by | ||
| Section 483.101, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school | ||
| shall develop and annually make available a protocol for school | ||
| employees to follow in the event a person at a campus of the | ||
| district or school experiences what is reasonably believed to be an | ||
| opioid-related drug overdose. | ||
| (c) The protocol adopted under this section must: | ||
| (1) provide for information about the availability of | ||
| opioid antagonists at each district or school campus; and | ||
| (2) require that agency-approved training in the use | ||
| of opioid antagonists is provided to any school employee who may be | ||
| reasonably expected to administer an opioid antagonist to a person | ||
| who is reasonably believed to be experiencing an opioid-related | ||
| drug overdose at a district or school campus. | ||
| (d) The training required under Subsection (c)(2) may be | ||
| provided as an online course. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
