Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires schools maintain certain emergency medication kits and to administer such medication in emergency situations in the state of Kansas.

Highlights:

• Requires schools maintain certain emergency medication kits including a stock supply of standard-dose and pediatric-dose epinephrine auto-injectors and to administer such medication in emergency situations in the state of Kansas (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes a pharmacist to distribute a stock supple of albuterol metered-dose inhalers, albuterol solution and spacers from a physician or mid-level practitioner in the name of the school (Sec. 1).

• Specifies schools shall not be liable for civil damages resulting from adminstration of said medication (Sec. 1).

• Defines "Albuterol" as a short-acting beta-2 agonist-inhaled medication, otherwise known as a bronchodilator, that is prescribed by a physician or mid-level practitioner for the treatment of respiratory distress (Sec. 3).

• Defines "Albuterol metered-dose inhaler" as a portable drug delivery system containing a canister of multiple premeasured doses of albuterol in a device actuator (Sec. 3).

• Defines "Albuterol solution" as a liquid form of albuterol for use with a nebulizer.

• Defines “Anaphaylaxis" or "anaphylactic reaction" as a sudden, severe and potentially life-threatening multi-system allergic reaction (Sec. 3).

• Defines "Designated school personnel" as an employee, officer, agent, or volunteer of a school who has completed training, documented by the school nurse, a physician or a mid-level practitioner, to administer emergency medication on a voluntary basis outside of the scope of employment (Sec. 3).

• Defines "Emergency medication" for the purposes of this bill as epinephrine or albuterol (Sec. 3).

• Defines "Epinephrine" means a medication prescribed by a physician or mid-level practitioner for the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis prior to the arrival of emergency medical system responders (Sec. 3).

• Defines "Epinephrine auto-injector" as a device that automatically injects a premeasured dose of epinephrine (Sec. 3).

• Defines "Nebulizer" as a device that is used to change a liquid medication to a fine spray of liquid or mist for the administration of the medication through inhalation (Sec. 3).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect and be in force after its passage and publication in the state statute book (Sec. 5).

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