Dillon’s Law

Dillon’s Law would amend the Public Health Service Act to create a special rule that allows States to treat certain non-employees as part of a school’s trained personnel when administering epinephrine in schools. Specifically, elementary and secondary schools in a State could count an individual who is not an employee of the school as trained personnel if the individual meets existing training/qualification requirements and the State attorney general reaffirms the State’s certification under a related provision. The bill also broadens terminology from “auto-injectable epinephrine” to “epinephrine delivery systems” and makes a minor textual correction. Importantly, the law would grant States a preference in allocating funds for children’s asthma treatment grants to states that adopt this policy. In short, the bill incentivizes States to expand who may administer epinephrine at schools by allowing non-employees to be treated as trained personnel, conditioned on meeting qualifications and state certification reaffirmation, and it broadens the device scope used for epinephrine delivery.