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Committee gives due-pass recommendation to bill updating controlled-substance schedules
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 29 to the Senate floor with a due pass recommendation; the bill updates Idahos controlled-substance schedules to add multiple synthetic opioids, cannabinoids, benzodiazepines, stimulants and anabolic steroids, and to schedule a new FDA-approved postpartum depression treatment.
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 29 to the Senate floor with a due pass recommendation after hearing a summary from Nikki Chopsky, health professions bureau chief at the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses.
Chopsky told the committee the bill updates the state's controlled-substances schedules to align with substances the federal government and other jurisdictions have identified. She summarized class-level changes included in the bill: additions of…
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