PHS Committee Session, 4/3/2025 #1

Public Health and Minority Health Disparities Subcommittee, Health and Government Operations Committee · April 4, 2025

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Chair (speaker identified in transcript) opened the April 3 briefing, announced the subcommittee would hold Senate Bill 447 (the emergency pregnancy-related medical conditions bill) and proceed with the scheduled briefing on xylazine and metatomidine despite having postponed twice.

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Maryland Department of Health officials briefed the Public Health and Minority Health Disparities Subcommittee on April 3 about rising detections of xylazine and a newer veterinary sedative, metatomidine, in the illicit fentanyl supply; the committee held Senate Bill 447 for further questions and discussed whether scheduling the drugs would help or unintentionally spur substitution.

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