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Committee questions mismatch in funding for fentanyl exposure provisions affecting children and vulnerable adults
Summary
Committee members asked why the fiscal treatment of fentanyl exposure provisions appeared in different agency lines. Staff said fiscal notes matched but the Senate did not include funding for Children, Youth and Families, which could reflect an oversight or expectation the agency could absorb costs.
During the budget walkthrough, Representative Kelly Mueller raised a question about funding for a provision that would criminalize—or expand criminal endangerment for—fentanyl exposure of children and vulnerable adults.<br><br>Representative Kelly Mueller, Chair of the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee, said she was trying “to figure that out now, but I just was curious, why that might…
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