The family of Genny Barbour may have found relief for their daughter in Gov. Chris Christie's pen.

Christie signed into law legislation that requires schools and facilities providing services to persons with developmental disabilities to adopt policies that allow qualifying patients to receive medicinal marijuana on Monday. Bill A-4587/S-3049 allows parents, guardians or primary caregivers, to administer medical marijuana on school grounds, on a school bus, or at a school sponsored activity, provided it is administered in a non-smokable form in a location designated by the school.

Specifically, the law requires boards of education, chief school administrators of non-public schools, and chief administrators of facilities providing services to persons with developmental disabilities to adopt a policy authorizing parents, guardians, and primary caregivers to administer medical marijuana to qualifying patients under certain circumstances. Barbour is a 16-year-old Maple Shade girl who suffers from epilepsy and autism and has been denied the right to use medical marijuana at the Larc School in Bellmawr.

Courts have ruled twice this year that the school's nurse isn't permitted to to administer cannabis oil to Genny Barbour under state law. It has also ruled that can't come to school to administer the oil at lunchtime.

As a result, Genny Barbour has had to miss half the school day every day since April so she can go home and receive her treatments.

Genny's father, Roger, told nj.com he and his wife were "caught off guard" and are "guardedly happy" about Monday's developments. He said he would contact the school district to see what happens next.

"We're talking about some of the state's most severely disabled students, some of whom suffer life threatening seizures and medical marijuana is the only thing that has helped ease their condition," bill co-sponsor and Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald (D-Camden/Burlington) said in a statement issued Monday afternoon. "We should be working with these families, not hindering relief. This change will lend more compassion to our program and help serve those who need it most." "Eliminating ambiguities in our current law will help ease the concerns of school districts that might fear liability," bill co-sponsor and Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (D-Camden/Burlington) said. "This simple change in the law will help parents ensure that their children do not suffer throughout the day when relief is so near at hand."