CONCORD — In 2016, N.H. legislators came to the aid of Granite State students with asthma in bipartisan fashion. Passing then Senate Bill 322, now law, permitted school districts to have bronchodilators, familiarly known as Albuterol inhalers, on hand in school health offices across the state. This law was intended to provide additional safeguards for emergency situations where students with asthma were without their own inhaler, as well as reduce the number of asthma-related school dismissals.
The New Hampshire School Nurses’ Association in collaboration with the New Hampshire Asthma Control Program piloted implementation of the emergency inhaler legislation in schools across the state. In June 2018, researchers Martha Judson and Nancy Wells reported out on the intentions and outcomes of the legislation.
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