D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser plans to sign emergency legislation that would allow students who are enrolled as patients in the District’s medical marijuana program to get treatment in schools, according to a spokesperson for the mayor’s office.

On Tuesday, the D.C. Council passed emergency legislation introduced by At-large D.C. Council member David Grosso. Under current law, medical marijuana can only be administered to a patient at their residence or a medical treatment facility. Grosso says that means students with serious health conditions, like epilepsy, can’t get their medication on site at schools. 

“No students should have to choose between attending school and receiving effective treatment for medical condition,” Grosso says.

Grosso says that even though D.C. Health clarified that a “health suite” in a school could be considered a medical treatment facility, the definition doesn’t go far enough.

“It is a bit of a stretch of a definition and some schools do not even have health suites, so I believe we need to clarify the underlying law,” Grosso says.

The law would require a school to have a policy in place for allowing the administration of the drug. And it only applies to students who are patients in the medical marijuana program, which requires a recommendation from a doctor. D.C. Health says it currently has 8 minors enrolled in the program.

At-large D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman says the bill would have helped people like her friend’s son, who has epilepsy and suffered multiple seizures a day. She says the friend eventually moved out of D.C. so their child could be accommodated in school.

“We don’t want families to have to leave their homes so that they can live in a jurisdiction where their children can live a normal life, they should be able to live a normal life here,” Silverman says.

The emergency legislation would take effect for 90 days after the mayor’s signature.

This story originally appeared on WAMU.