SB 568: Pupil health: epinephrine delivery systems: schoolsites and childcare programs.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

(1)Existing law prohibits specified medical professionals, including nurses, not employed in that capacity by the State Department of Health Care Services, and any other person, from being employed or permitted to supervise the health and physical development of pupils unless that person holds a services credential with a specialization in health or a valid credential, as provided.

Notwithstanding that provision, existing law authorizes any pupil who is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for them by a physician and surgeon or ordered for them by a physician assistant, to be assisted by the school nurse or other designated school personnel, and to carry and self-administer, prescription auto-injectable epinephrine if the school district receives the appropriate written statements, as specified.

This bill would revise and recast that latter provision by authorizing assistance with, and the carrying and self-administration of, emergency epinephrine delivery systems, instead of auto-injectors, and making its provisions also apply to county offices of education and charter schools.

Notwithstanding any other law, existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors, to be stored in an accessible location upon need for emergency use, to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided.

This bill would revise and recast those provisions by requiring local educational agencies, defined as a school district, county office of education, or charter school, to provide emergency epinephrine delivery systems, instead of auto-injectors, as provided, to be stored at each schoolsite, including at the location of any state or federally subsidized childcare program operated by or under contract with the local educational agency, and by expanding the definition of “volunteer” or “trained personnel” to include certain employees of childcare programs, as provided.

To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. October 3, 2025Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 322, Statutes of 2025.
2. October 3, 2025Approved by the Governor.
3. September 23, 2025Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
4. September 12, 2025Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3002.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
5. September 8, 2025In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
6. September 8, 2025Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 2995.) Ordered to the Senate.
7. September 4, 2025Ordered to third reading.
8. September 4, 2025Read third time and amended.
9. September 2, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
10. August 29, 2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29).
11. August 20, 2025August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
12. July 17, 2025Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.