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Committee lays over bill to add fentanyl to hazardous-substance statute pending fiscal analysis
Summary
The Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee laid over Senate File 456, which would amend state statute to address fentanyl alongside existing hazardous-substance provisions, while waiting for fiscal analysis and updated overdose data.
Senate File 456 — a proposal to amend Minnesota law that currently addresses methamphetamine production and hazards to explicitly include fentanyl — was presented to the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee and laid over pending fiscal analysis.
Assistant county attorney Sebastian Mesa, joining the hearing via Zoom, told senators the bill updates existing statutory language to reflect fentanyl’s emergence as a highly toxic and destructive substance. Mesa cited research and local incidents described in the committee packet and testimony: "Fentanyl overdose deaths in our state have roughly tripled between…
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