High school students allowed to possess and administer opiate antagonists.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details about how schools should teach students about opiate antagonists, nor does it specify changes in school rules beyond allowing possession and administration of these medicines.

High School Students Can Have Medicine for Overdoses

This law lets high school students carry and use medicine that can help someone who has taken too many opioids.

What This Bill Does

• Allows high school students to have opiate antagonists, which are medicines used in opioid overdose emergencies.

Who It Names or Affects

• High school students who want to carry opiate antagonists.
• School districts and charter schools that must allow these students to have the medicines.

Terms To Know

opiate antagonist

A medicine used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, such as naloxone.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how schools should teach students about using opiate antagonists.
• It is unclear if this law will be signed by the governor or what changes might happen before it becomes a law.

Official Summary Text

High school students allowed to possess and administer opiate antagonists.

Current Bill Text

A bill for an act

relating to education; allowing high school students to possess and administer

opiate antagonists; amending Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section

121A.224, subdivision 2.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 121A.224, subdivision 2, is

amended to read:

Subd. 2.

High school students.

A school district or charter school
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may
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must
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allow a

student in grades 9 through 12 to possess and administer an opiate antagonist to another

high school student. The protections of section
604A.04
apply to the possession and

administration of opiate antagonists according to this section.