Existing law includes various provisions regarding the use and storage of auto-injectable epinephrine at school. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel for emergency use. Existing law also authorizes pharmacies to furnish epinephrine auto-injectors to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, and allows students to carry and self-administer such devices during the school day with appropriate authorization.
SB 568 replaces references to “epinephrine auto-injectors” with “epinephrine delivery systems” to allow the use, storage, and provision of a wider range of epinephrine delivery systems. SB 568 also extends requirements relating to epinephrine delivery systems to childcare programs operated by or under contract with local educational agencies, requiring that those programs also maintain emergency epinephrine delivery systems and trained personnel.
(SB 568 amends Sections 49414 and 49423 of the Education Code and Section 4119.2 of the Business and Professions Code.)