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SB-997 Pupil health: opioid antagonists and fentanyl test strips.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 49414.6 is added to the Education Code, to read:

49414.6.
 (a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, local educational agencies shall not prohibit pupils in middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, or adult schools, while on a schoolsite or participating in school activities, from carrying fentanyl test strips or a federally approved opioid antagonist for over-the-counter use for the emergency treatment of persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose.
(b) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.