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Committee adopts amendment to increase penalties for fentanyl possession and advances bill to full judiciary
3221352 · April 1, 2025
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Summary
Lawmakers amended HB 12-32 to impose a mandatory minimum for fentanyl possession and clarify homicide treatment in overdose deaths; the bill as amended advanced out of committee to full judiciary.
Leader Lambert presented amendment code 4-908 to House Bill 12-32, framing fentanyl as an ``absolute killer'' and saying the proposal would mirror prior approaches to the methamphetamine epidemic. The amendment, as described, would impose a 30-day mandatory minimum for convictions involving fentanyl or fentanyl analogs and would clarify that deaths by fentanyl…
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