PUBLIC LIBRARY; OPIOD ANTAGONIST                                                     S.B. 828 & 829:

                                                                                                    SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                      REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

Senate Bills 828 and 829 (as reported without amendment)

Sponsor:  Senator Rick Jones (S.B. 828)

               Senator Margaret E. O'Brien (S.B. 829)

Committee:  Health Policy

CONTENT

Senate Bill 828 would create the "Administration of Opioid Antagonists by Library Employees Act" to do the following:

-- Allow a public library to purchase and possess an opioid antagonist, and distribute it to a library employee or agent.

-- Permit a library employee or agent to administer an opioid antagonist to an individual, if the employee or agent had been trained in the administration of an opioid antagonist and believed the individual was experiencing an opioid-related overdose.

-- Exempt from civil liability a public library that purchased, possessed, or distributed an opioid antagonist, and a library employee or agent who possessed or in good faith administered an opioid antagonist, if the conduct did not amount to gross negligence.

-- Exempt from criminal prosecution a public library that purchased, possessed, or distributed an opioid antagonist, and a library employee or agent who possessed or in good faith administered an opioid antagonist.

"Library employee or agent" would mean an individual who be employed by a public library, an individual who worked under a contract with the library, an appointed or elected official who served on the governing board of a library, or an individuals who volunteers with a public library.

"Opioid antagonist" would mean naloxone hydrochloride or any other similarly acting and equally safe drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of drug overdose.

Senate Bill 829 would amend the Public Health Code to allow a prescriber to issue a prescription for, and allow a dispensing prescriber or pharmacist to dispense an opioid antagonist to a public library employee for the purposes of the proposed Administration of Opioid Antagonists by Library Employees Act.

The bills are tie-barred.

MCL 333.17744b (S.B. 829)                                         Legislative Analyst: Tyler VanHuyse

FISCAL IMPACT

The bills would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.

Date Completed:  11-28-18                                                  Fiscal Analyst:  Ryan Bergan

                                                                                                       Michael Siracuse

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.