158.830 Legislative findings -- Construction of KRS 158.830 to 158.836.

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The 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.