Committee reviews H.105 form changes to record detected substances, considers cross-referencing Title 23 definitions

The Judiciary Committee met May 7 to review draft amendments to H.105 that would change the notice-of-violation form used under the proposed administrative mandate to record the presence of substances detected during incidents. Ben Novakrasi, legislative counsel, told the panel the draft adds language on page 7 to require the notice to “indicate the presence of any substances that constitute a violation of subsection a of the section,” while keeping the statutory rule that “a person shall not be cited for more than one violation.”

The change is meant to give providers and programs more information about the substances involved without creating multiple citations for a single incident. Novakrasi said the phrase “presence of substances” was intended to cover substances detected…