HB 155 - Emergency Treatment and Recovery Act

• Authorizes licensed health care practitioners to prescribe opioid antagonists to patients or caregivers for emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdoses.

• Permits patients and caregivers to store, possess, and administer approved opioid antagonists in emergency situations when a physician is not immediately available, regardless of whether the person being treated has an opioid prescription.

• Allows emergency responders, including law enforcement officers and emergency medical technicians, to possess, store, and administer approved opioid antagonists as clinically indicated.

• Provides civil liability immunity protections under Florida Statute 768.13 to authorized health care practitioners, dispensing practitioners, pharmacists, and others who comply with the law when possessing, administering, prescribing, dispensing, or storing approved opioid antagonists.

• Takes effect upon becoming law.