Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 40 - STOCK MEDICATION IN SCHOOLS AND OTHER ENTITIES
Subchapter F - OPIOID ANTAGONIST MEDICATION REQUIREMENTS IN SCHOOLS
Section 40.84 - Required and Voluntary Opioid Antagonist Policies

Universal Citation: 25 TX Admin Code ยง 40.84

Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024

(a) Each school district must adopt and implement a policy regarding the maintenance, administration, and disposal of opioid antagonists at each campus in the district serving students in grades 6 through 12 and may voluntarily adopt and implement such a policy at each campus in the district, including campuses serving students in a grade level below grade 6.

(b) An open-enrollment charter school or private school may adopt and implement a policy regarding the maintenance, administration, and disposal of opioid antagonists. If an open-enrollment charter or private school adopts a policy under this subchapter, the opioid antagonist policy must comply with the Texas Education Code § 38.222. The policy may apply:

(1) only at campuses of the school serving students in grades 6 through 12; or

(2) at each campus of the school, including campuses serving students in a grade level below grade 6.

(c) A policy adopted under this subchapter must:

(1) provide that school personnel and school volunteers who are authorized and trained may administer an opioid antagonist to a person who they reasonably believe is experiencing an opioid-related drug overdose;

(2) require each school campus, subject to a policy adopted under this subchapter, have one or more school personnel members or school volunteers authorized and trained to administer an opioid antagonist present during regular school hours;

(3) establish the number of opioid antagonists that must be available at each campus at any given time; and

(4) require the supply of opioid antagonists at each school campus, subject to a policy adopted under this subchapter, be stored in a secure location and be easily accessible to school personnel and school volunteers authorized and trained to administer an opioid antagonist.

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