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Lawmakers consider updating school epinephrine rules to cover new delivery systems
Summary
House File 2,489 would broaden statute to allow FDA-approved epinephrine delivery systems (not limited to 'EpiPens') and create statewide standing-orders protocols to ease school access. Sponsors and members praised the bill; the committee laid the measure over for possible omnibus inclusion.
Representative (name on transcript: Representative Vernick) introduced House File 2,489 to allow school districts to stock and use broader categories of epinephrine delivery systems and to enable standing orders and condition-specific protocols from the Minnesota Department of Health.
The bill replaces language that specifically named “EpiPens or epinephrine injectors” with the broader term “epinephrine delivery system,” defined as an FDA-approved single premeasured dose device. The change is intended to make the statute technology-neutral and to allow new approved delivery methods, including nasal sprays, to be used in schools.
Supporters said the change will make it easier for districts to obtain standing orders and protocols from MDH, modeled after standing orders used for naloxone distribution. Representative Keeler told the committee a 10-year-old constituent told her the nasal spray option “would be life saving” because it is faster and less stigmatizing for young people. Representative Carroll recounted family experience with a daughter who carries an EpiPen.
A member asked about cost and expiration differences between injectors and nasal sprays; the author said she would follow up with members on cost data. The committee laid House File 2,489 over for possible inclusion.
Action taken: bill laid over for possible inclusion; no vote tally recorded on final disposition at hearing.
