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| | | An Act To Authorize Certain School Children To Carry |
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| | | Emergency Medication on Their Persons |
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| | | Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units | | of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate | | additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide | | funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the | | Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the | | members elected to each House have determined it necessary to | | enact this measure. |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §254, sub-§5, śC is enacted to read: |
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| | | C.__A public school or a private school approved pursuant to | | section 2902 must have a written local policy authorizing | | students to possess and self-administer emergency medication | | from an asthma inhaler or an epinephrine pen.__The written | | local policy must include the following requirements. |
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| | | (1)__A student who self-administers an asthma inhaler | | or an epinephrine pen must have the prior written | | approval of the student's primary health care provider | | and, if the student is a minor, the prior written | | approval of the student's parent or guardian. |
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| | | (2)__The student's parent or guardian must submit written | | verification to the school from the student's |
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