Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

Under present law, a licensed healthcare practitioner otherwise authorized to prescribe an opioid antagonist and who is acting in good faith and exercising reasonable care may, directly or by standing order, prescribe an opioid antagonist to the following persons: (1) A person at risk of experiencing an opiate related overdose; or (2) A family member, friend, or other person in a position to assist a person at risk of experiencing an opiate-related overdose. This bill adds authorization for such a healthcare practitioner to prescribe an opioid antagonist to an entity providing addiction treatment services or residential housing services for persons in recovery (referred to in this bill as an "agency"). Under present law, a licensed healthcare practitioner acting in good faith and with reasonable care, who prescribes, dispenses, or administers an opioid antagonist to a person the healthcare provider believes to be experiencing or is at risk of experiencing a drug-related overdose or prescribes an opioid antagonist to a family member, friend, or other person in a position to assist a person experiencing or at risk of experiencing a drug-related overdose is immune from disciplinary or adverse administrative actions for acts or omissions during the administration, prescription, or dispensation of an opioid antagonist. This bill adds that an agency is also immune for acts or omissions during the administration, prescription, or dispensation of an opioid antagonist. Present law requires the commissioner of health, or the commissioner's designee, to make available recommendations for training of first responders in the appropriate use of opioid antagonists. This bill adds agency employees to the persons to whom the commissioner or designee will make such recommendations for training. This bill adds authorization for: (1) An agency to purchase and possess an opioid antagonist and distribute the opioid antagonist to an employee who has been trained in the administration of the opioid antagonist; and (2) An agency employee to possess an opioid antagonist and administer the opioid antagonist to an individual if: (A) The agency employee has been trained in the proper administration of the opioid antagonist; and (B) The agency employee has reason to believe that an individual is experiencing an opioid-related drug overdose.