Section 158.830 - Legislative findings - Construction of KRS 158.830 to 158.836The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky finds that:
(1) Asthma is the seventh-most prevalent chronic health condition in the United States and is the leading serious chronic illness of children;(2) Asthma is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization among children under age fifteen (15) and accounts for almost one (1) in six (6) of all pediatric emergency room visits;(3) Approximately two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) Kentuckians suffer from asthma, including over sixty thousand (60,000) children;(4) Nationally more than five thousand four hundred (5,400) individuals die from asthma each year;(5) Asthma is the number-one cause of school absences attributed to chronic conditions;(6) Asthma is manageable with treatment and medications;(7) Physicians and other health care practitioners instruct children with asthma in the proper use of asthma medications; and(8)KRS 158.830 to 158.836 shall be construed to provide unobstructed access to asthma medications for elementary and secondary school students with asthma.Effective:7/15/2002
Created 2002, Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 1, effective7/15/2002.