Pupil health: self-administration of prescribed asthma medication.
Existing law authorizes a school nurse or other designated school personnel to assist any pupil who is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for the pupil by a physician or surgeon if the school district receives specified written statements from the physician or surgeon and from the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil. Existing law authorizes a pupil to carry and self-administer prescription inhaled asthma medication, if the school district receives (1) a written statement from a physician or surgeon detailing the name of the medication, method, amount, and time schedules by which the medication is to be taken, and confirming that the pupil is able to self-administer inhaled asthma medication and (2) specified written statements from the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil, including releasing the school district and school personnel from civil liability if the self-administering pupil suffers an adverse reaction by taking the asthma medication.
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California Legislature
20192020
AB 743
California AB 743 (20192020)
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Pupil health: self-administration of prescribed asthma medication.
California AB 743 (20192020) — Pupil health: self-administration of prescribed asthma medication.
Existing law authorizes a school nurse or other designated school personnel to assist any pupil who is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for the pupil by a physician or surgeon if the school district receives specified written statements from the physician or surgeon and from the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil. Existing law authorizes a pupil to carry and self-administer prescription inhaled asthma medication, if the school district receives (1) a written statement from a physician or surgeon detailing the name of the medication, method, amount, and time schedules by which the medication is to be taken, and confirming that the pupil is able to self-administer inhaled asthma medication and (2) specified written statements from the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil, including releasing the school district and school personnel from civil liability if the self-administering pupil suffers an adverse reaction by taking the asthma medication.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 743 Eduardo Garcia Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar AB743 Eduardo Garcia et al — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
Carrillo — coauthor (person)
Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2019-03-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2019-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2019-04-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2019-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1465.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2019-05-16 Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. referral-committee
2019-06-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-06-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2019-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2019-07-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1876.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-07-01 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2019-07-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2019-07-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2019-07-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6a7b1f8-da40-4e3b-bf36-4f923474a368. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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