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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2025 - 2026
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 19, 2024 12:05 PM |
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| From: | Representative Kristin Marcell and Rep. Melissa Cerrato |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | School Bus Driver Epinephrine Auto-injector Training and Grant Program (Former HB 1950) |
| Food allergy is a growing safety and public health concern in the United States. Students with food allergies can be particularly vulnerable on the bus traveling to and from school. Staff who are familiar with a student’s medical needs are absent. Due to the lack of direct adult supervision, students may be at a greater risk for exposure to food allergens. School bus drivers and transportation personnel can be an important part of food allergy management plans. Under current law, school entities are permitted to train school employees in the recognition of anaphylaxis and administration of epinephrine auto-injectors to students. The law also allows school bus drivers to administer epinephrine auto-injectors to students if their employers choose to permit them to do so. My bill will allow a school entity to require a driver of a school bus or school vehicle who is employed by, or under a contract with, a school entity to transport students, to complete training for the administration of an epinephrine auto-injector prior to transporting students. The bill also sets up a grant program within the Department of Education to provide school entities with funding to raise awareness and train drivers of a school bus or school vehicle to recognize signs and symptoms of severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, and to administer an epinephrine auto-injector. Please join me in sponsoring this important, and potentially lifesaving, legislation. |