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Committee backs measure to require opioid antagonists in campus residence halls
Summary
The Senate committee recommended passage of Senate File 164, as amended, to require postsecondary residential facilities to keep at least two doses of an opioid antagonist on-site and direct the commissioner of health to provide resources for implementation.
Senate File 164, a bill to require opioid antagonists be available in campus residential facilities, was recommended to pass and referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services after the Senate Higher Education Committee adopted two amendments.
The bill, introduced by Senator Weber, would require postsecondary institutions’ residential facilities to maintain at least two doses of an opioid antagonist and direct the commissioner of health to identify implementation resources, including at least one training video. Senator Weber also said the plan would ask institution governing boards (the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities board of trustees and the…
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