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Committee advances broad opioid and substance-use bill with harm-reduction and enforcement changes
Summary
House Bill 199, a wide-ranging substance-use policy bill covering harm reduction, expanded treatment access including mobile MAT, prohibition of supervised injection sites, needle-exchange restrictions, and updates to nuisance laws, was favorably recommended by the committee after stakeholder testimony.
A Senate committee on Feb. 20 favorably recommended House Bill 199, a comprehensive package of changes to Utah’s substance-use policy that combines harm-reduction regulation, expanded treatment options and updates to nuisance and enforcement tools.
Sponsor’s overview: the bill sponsor described HB 199 as the product of a long collaborative process intended to “hit every step of the way for our drug policy in Utah.” Key provisions spelled out in committee testimony include inserting harm-reduction pathways and mission language into statute; prohibiting supervised injection…
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