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Senate Judiciary panel adopts Abbas amendment adding fentanyl mandatory-minimums; bill moved forward
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved an Abbas amendment that adds mandatory-minimum penalties tied to fentanyl-related deaths and reduces some minimum terms, and then advanced the underlying bill out of committee as amended.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on May 20 adopted an amendment to a criminal-penalties bill that adds mandatory-minimum sentences for some fentanyl-related offenses, and the committee later advanced the underlying bill out of committee as amended.
The amendment—identified in committee as Amendment 2061 and described by sponsors as an “Abbas amendment”—incorporates elements of previously filed measures, including provisions drawn from Senate bills 14 and 15, while reducing the number of years in some mandatory minimums and adding a knowledge…
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