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2018 SESSION
HB 1175 Prescribers; notice of administration of naloxone.
Introduced by: Todd E. Pillion | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Prescribers; notice of administration of naloxone. Requires every hospital that operates an emergency department to develop and implement a protocol for (i) identifying every prescriber who has prescribed opioids to a patient to whom naloxone is administered for the purpose of reversing an opioid overdose in the emergency department or by emergency medical services personnel or a law-enforcement officer prior to admission to the emergency department and (ii) notifying each such prescriber that the patient has been treated with naloxone for the purpose of reversing an opioid overdose. Such notification shall be made in each case in which naloxone is administered for the purpose of reversing an opioid overdose by a health care provider in a hospital emergency department, emergency medical services personnel, or a law-enforcement officer to a patient to whom opioids have been prescribed by a prescriber.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103279D
- 01/10/18 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/18/18 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/01/18 House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (9-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/18 House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions