1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health; appropriating money for grant funding for opiate antagonist 
1.3 	purchases and training.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. STEVE'S LAW GRANT PROGRAM; APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	(a) $250,000 in fiscal year 2016 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
1.7 	commissioner of health for grants to educate emergency medical services persons, as 
1.8 	defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 144.7401, subdivision 4, on the use of an opiate 
1.9 	antagonist in the event of an opioid or heroin overdose. Grant funds may be used for the 
1.10 	purposes of training and education or purchasing opiate antagonists. This appropriation is 
1.11 	a onetime appropriation and is available through September 1, 2016.
1.12 	(b) The grant funding must be distributed proportionately to the eight regional 
1.13 	emergency medical services programs based on the need of that region, as determined 
1.14 	by the commissioner. The commissioner shall utilize existing data to determine the 
1.15 	emergency medical services regions with the highest need for the grant funding provided 
1.16 	in paragraph (a). The regional emergency medical services programs must submit an 
1.17 	application for a grant to the commissioner by September 1, 2015.
1.18 	(c) For purposes of this section, "opiate antagonist" means naloxone hydrochloride 
1.19 	or any similarly acting drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for 
1.20 	the treatment of drug overdose.