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Lawmakers weigh ban on retail sales of nitrous oxide amid public-health testimony
Summary
House members heard from tribal leaders, public-health officials, law enforcement, the Attorney General's Office and families about House Bill 25-32, which would make it a gross misdemeanor to sell nitrous oxide devices except for medical, culinary and certain industrial uses; testimony cited poison-center trends, fatalities and local bans.
Lena Langer, counsel to the committee, briefed members on House Bill 25-32, which would prohibit selling, furnishing, administering, distributing or offering devices or canisters that contain nitrous oxide for nonmedical/culinary/industrial uses and make such sales a gross misdemeanor, with enumerated exemptions for licensed medical/dental uses, food products using nitrous oxide as a propellant and manufacturing/industrial use.
Representative Joe Timmons (42nd Legislative District), prime sponsor, described neighborhood…
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