HB 121

Abstract

Board of Education; health education Standards of Learning; severe allergic reaction awareness training. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for health education for grade nine and grade 10 an in-person or online severe allergic reaction awareness training that includes certain topics enumerated in the bill. The bill requires each school board to incorporate such severe allergic reaction awareness training into any health education instruction provided at grades nine and 10 beginning with the school year following the Board of Education's adoption of the revised Standards of Learning for health education for grades nine and 10 incorporating such severe allergic reaction awareness training and directs the Board to, in the intermediary time, develop and post on its website guidance documents for the purpose of making such severe allergic reaction awareness training available to school boards.

Board of Education; health education Standards of Learning; severe allergic reaction awareness training. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for health education for grade nine and grade 10 an in-person or online severe allergic reaction awareness training that includes certain topics enumerated in the bill.

Public high school students; allergic reactionawareness training required. Requires each public high schoolstudent to complete, within three months of his initial enrollment,an in-person or online severe allergic reaction awareness trainingthat includes the following content: (i) the definition of and distinctionbetween normal allergic reaction and anaphylaxis; (ii) types of allergens,including common and less common allergens; (iii) the signs and symptomsof normal allergic reaction and anaphylaxis; (iv) treatments foranaphylaxis; and (v) the proper response to suspected anaphylaxis,including notifying the nearest staff member trained to respond toanaphylaxis and administer epinephrine.