Bill Text: HI HR47 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging The Department Of Education To Supply All Classrooms With Narcan Or Another Type Of Naloxone By September 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-08 - Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 18 [HR47 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HR47-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	47
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

urging the department of Education to supply all classrooms with Narcan or another type of NALOXONE by September 1, 2024.

 

 

     WHEREAS, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there were more than eighty thousand reported overdose deaths involving opioid during 2020; and

 

     WHEREAS, deaths caused by opioids are often preventable through timely administration of an opioid antagonist, such as naloxone, also known as Narcan; and

 

     WHEREAS, opioid antagonists have been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, and these medications have been used for more than forty years by emergency medical services personnel to reverse opioid overdoses; and

 

     WHEREAS, opioid antagonists have no psychoactive effects and do not have any potential for abuse, and first responders and persons with no medical training can learn to administer opioid antagonists safely; and

 

     WHEREAS, research has shown that the increased availability of opioid antagonists does not encourage people to use more drugs or engage in riskier behavior; and

 

     WHEREAS, under section 34-16.2, Revised Ordinances of Honolulu, various businesses that sell or serve liquor are required to maintain two doses of naloxone on their premises; and

 

     WHEREAS, placing naloxone doses in every public school classroom can help to prevent deaths caused by accidental opioid overdoses; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2024, that the Department of Education is urged to supply all classrooms with Narcan or another type of naloxone by September 1, 2024; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Superintendent of Education and the Chairperson of the Board of Education.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Department of Education; Opioid; Narcan; Noloxone; Classrooms