Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: maintaining a supply of usable opioid antagonist at a public or private school and making an appropriation. (FE)
Drugs Justice department of Parochial and private schools School — Charter school School — Health program
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, certain school personnel, including school bus operators, employees, and volunteers of public, private, and tribal schools, are allowed to administer an opioid antagonist on a person who appears to be undergoing an opioid-related drug overdose. Current law also provides immunity to elementary and secondary schools, designated school personnel, physicians, advanced practice nurse prescribers, and physician assistants who provide or administer an opioid antagonist for any injury resulting from the opioid antagonist.
This bill requires school boards, governing boards of independent charter schools, and governing bodies of private schools to ensure that each school maintain a usable supply of an opioid antagonist on site, in a place that is accessible at all times. The bill also requires the Office of School Safety in the Department of Justice to provide grants to school boards, governing boards of independent charter schools, and governing bodies of private schools for the costs of complying with this requirement. The bill provides $100,000 for these grants in the 2026-27 fiscal year.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Full history
- Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Emerson, Bare, Anderson, Roe, Miresse, Subeck, Arney, Joers, Stubbs, DeSmidt, Sinicki, Palmeri, Madison, Udell, Snodgrass, Tenorio and Clancy; cosponsored by Senators Smith, Keyeski, Spreitzer, Pfaff, Hesselbein, Ratcliff, Larson and Roys
- Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care
- Mar 11, 2026 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1