General Assembly Approves Bill To Allow Students To Carry EpiPens on Bus
Helping students with anaplylaxis, the bill, sponsored by Sen. Walter S. Felag Jr. and Rep. Jan P. Malik, now goes to Gov. Lincoln Chafee for approval.
The following is a press release: Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening allergic reaction that does not always pick an appropriate time or place to appear. Legislation approved this week by the General Assembly will add school buses to the places that help is nearby for a student overcome by an allergic reaction. The bills, 2012-S 2173Aaa and 2012-H 7447A, will allow school bus drivers and monitors, after receiving proper training, to administer an epinephrine auto-injector (marketed under trade names such as the commonly known EpiPen) to an affected student while in transit to or from school or a school event. Sponsored by Sen. Walter S. Felag Jr. (D-Dist. 10, Warren, Bristol, Tiverton) and by Rep. Jan P. Malik (D-Dist. 67, Barrington, Warren…
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1:51 pm on Thursday, May 24, 2012
Extending the "Good Samaritan" law to people administering the EpiPens is comforting and goodness. more ›