Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1514
       
       
        
       By Senator Smith
       
       
       
       
       
       17-00898A-25                                          20251514__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to anaphylaxis in public schools;
    3         amending s. 1006.07, F.S.; requiring each district
    4         school board to ensure that specified emergency action
    5         plans are effective at all times when certain students
    6         are on campus; requiring each district school board to
    7         ensure that school personnel and employees and
    8         contracted personnel of before-school and after-school
    9         programs at school receive certain training relating
   10         to allergic reactions and anaphylaxis; providing
   11         requirements for such training; authorizing the State
   12         Board of Education to adopt rules; providing an
   13         effective date.
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   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Subsection (12) is added to section 1006.07,
   18  Florida Statutes, to read:
   19         1006.07 District school board duties relating to student
   20  discipline and school safety.—The district school board shall
   21  provide for the proper accounting for all students, for the
   22  attendance and control of students at school, and for proper
   23  attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the
   24  welfare of students, including:
   25         (12) ANAPHYLAXIS POLICY.—
   26         (a) Each district school board shall ensure that for a
   27  student with an emergency action plan, his or her emergency
   28  action plan is effective at all times when he or she is on
   29  campus, including during extracurricular activities, athletics,
   30  school dances, and contracted before-school and after-school
   31  programs at his or her school. Each district school board shall
   32  ensure that each school within the district has provided
   33  training to school personnel on preventing and responding to an
   34  allergic reaction, including anaphylaxis, and that each before
   35  school and after-school program at a school within the district
   36  has provided such training to its employees and contracted
   37  personnel. The requirements for such training must include
   38  training in the administration of emergency epinephrine,
   39  including epinephrine autoinjectors and epinephrine nasal
   40  sprays.
   41         (b) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to
   42  administer this subsection, including identifying an approved
   43  training curriculum for the training required under this
   44  subsection.
   45         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.