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Students and advocates urge adding overdose recognition, response to school health standards; committee holds bill over
Summary
Representative West's bill to add overdose recognition, prevention and response education to Minnesota health standards drew extensive student testimony and bipartisan support from committee members; the committee voted to hold House File 20-23 for possible inclusion in broader work.
The House Education Policy Committee on March 18 heard testimony and discussion on House File 20-23, which would add "overdose recognition, prevention and response" education to Minnesota's health standards. The committee voted to hold the bill over for possible inclusion in future work.
Representative West, the bill's author, told the committee the change is "merely a sentence" appended to the health standards and said students brought the idea to her after researching gaps in current health education. "If we are going to have [state standards], we know our country and state ... are dealing with [an opioid epidemic]." She described fentanyl's…
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