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Sponsor seeks to classify nonconsensual drugging as assault; committee debates scope and exceptions
Summary
House Bill 174 would make it an assault to intentionally provide certain drugs to another person without that person’s consent, while exempting medical providers and naloxone administration.
Representative Neil Duram opened the hearing on House Bill 174, saying the measure would revise Montana’s assault law to make it an offense to purposely or knowingly provide certain drugs to another person without that person’s consent. Duram read the bill’s core language and said the bill’s intent is that “any drugs that go into my body, I need to give consent for.” He described exceptions for medical providers and for administration of opioid reversal medication such as naloxone.
Duram cited commonly referenced “date-rape” drugs (Rohypnol, flunitrazepam, gamma-hydroxybutyrate) and broader…
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