Florida Senate - 2025                             CS for SB 1514
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education Pre-K - 12; and Senators Smith,
       Arrington, and Davis
       
       
       
       
       581-02833-25                                          20251514c1
    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 to
   10         allergic reactions and anaphylaxis; requiring that a
   11         member of school personnel with such training be on
   12         school grounds; providing requirements for such
   13         training; authorizing the State Board of Education to
   14         adopt rules; providing an effective date.
   15          
   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Subsection (12) is added to section 1006.07,
   19  Florida Statutes, to read:
   20         1006.07 District school board duties relating to student
   21  discipline and school safety.—The district school board shall
   22  provide for the proper accounting for all students, for the
   23  attendance and control of students at school, and for proper
   24  attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the
   25  welfare of students, including:
   26         (12) ANAPHYLAXIS POLICY.—
   27         (a) Each district school board shall ensure that for a
   28  student with an emergency action plan, his or her emergency
   29  action plan is effective at all times when he or she is on
   30  campus, including during extracurricular activities, athletics,
   31  school dances, and contracted before-school and after-school
   32  programs at his or her school. Each district school board shall
   33  ensure that each school within the district has provided
   34  training to school personnel on preventing and responding to an
   35  allergic reaction, including anaphylaxis, and that each before
   36  school and after-school program at a school within the district
   37  has provided such training to its employees and contracted
   38  personnel. At least one member of school personnel with such
   39  training must be on school grounds to execute a student’s
   40  emergency action plan. The requirements for such training must
   41  include training in the administration of emergency epinephrine,
   42  including epinephrine autoinjectors and epinephrine nasal
   43  sprays.
   44         (b) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to
   45  administer this subsection, including identifying an approved
   46  training curriculum for the training required under this
   47  subsection.
   48         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.