| (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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