SB-1347 • 2026

Pupil health: emergency stock albuterol inhalers.

Education Healthcare

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Niello
Last action: 2026-05-18
Official status: Referred to Com. on ED.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on the specific actions of trained staff regarding dispensing inhalers, only that local educational agencies can have them available.

Emergency Albuterol Inhalers for Schools and Childcare

This law changes the rules so that local educational agencies can have emergency albuterol inhalers available, and extends this to childcare programs linked with schools.

What This Bill Does

Changes existing laws to allow local educational agencies to provide emergency stock albuterol inhalers for medical emergencies.
Defines a 'local educational agency' as a school operated by a district or charter school.
Expands the use of these inhalers to childcare programs that are run by or contract with schools.

Who It Names or Affects

Local educational agencies, such as public schools and charter schools
Childcare programs that work with or are run by school districts

Terms To Know

local educational agency: A school district, county office of education, or a charter school.
emergency stock albuterol inhalers: Extra albuterol inhalers kept on hand for sudden medical needs related to breathing problems.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify who will pay for the emergency inhalers.
It is unclear how many schools or childcare centers will actually use these rules.

Bill History

2026-05-18 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2026-04-30 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2026-04-30 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2026-04-09 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-04-08 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3791.) (April 8).
2026-04-06 California Legislative Information
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 8.
2026-03-04 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2026-02-23 California Legislative Information
Read first time.
2026-02-23 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 1347, as amended, Niello.
Pupil health: emergency stock albuterol inhalers.
Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, or charter school to provide emergency stock albuterol inhalers, as specified, to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use an emergency stock albuterol inhaler to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from respiratory distress, as provided.
This bill would revise and recast that latter provision by making its provisions
instead apply to local educational agencies
and defining “a local educational agency” to mean a school operated by
also apply to a childcare program, as defined, that is operated by or contracts with
a school district, county office of education, or charter
school.
school, as provided.

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