SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SATER (Sponsor), WRIGHT (159), TILLEY, HARRIS (110), FISHER, RUESTMAN, HOBBS, MUNZLINGER, WETER, WILSON (119) AND SUTHERLAND (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 5, 2006 and copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 9, 2006 and referred to the Committee on Health Care Policy February 3, 2006.
Reported from the Committee on Health Care Policy March 2, 2006 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f).
Reported from the Committee on Rules March 7, 2006 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.
Perfected by Consent March 14, 2006.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 167, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to school nurses.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 167, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 167.630, to read as follows:
167.630. 1. Each school board may authorize a school nurse licensed under chapter 335, RSMo, who is employed by the school district and for whom the board is responsible for to maintain an adequate supply of prefilled auto syringes of epinephrine with fifteen hundredths milligram or three-tenths milligram delivery at the school. The nurse shall recommend to the school board the number of prefilled epinephrine auto syringes that the school should maintain.
2. To obtain prefilled epinephrine auto syringes for a school district, a prescription written by a licensed physician, a physician's assistant, or nurse practitioner is required. For such prescriptions, the school district shall be designated as the patient, the nurse's name shall be required, and the prescription shall be filled at a licensed pharmacy.
3. A school nurse shall have the discretion to use an epinephrine auto syringe on any student the school nurse believes is having a life threatening anaphylactic reaction based on the nurse's training in recognizing an acute episode of an anaphylactic reaction.
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