Today is expected to be the last day of the 2022 legislative session. One of the last bills I expect we’ll take up is the conference committee report on HB2540 - an update to the list of scheduled drugs. This bill previously contained a provision to decriminalize fentanyl testing strips by removing them from the definition of drug paraphernalia. That definition was written in 1981 - well before fentanyl was a thought - and it hasn’t been updated since.
You're addressing a clearly urgent problem for this state--SOMEday it will be addressed, after so many more needless deaths. Thank you, Jason.