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2021 SESSION
HB 1821 Experiencing or reporting overdoses; prohibits arrest and prosecution.
Introduced by: David L. Bulova | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Arrest and prosecution when experiencing or reporting overdoses. Prohibits the arrest or prosecution of an individual for the unlawful purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, intoxication in public, or possession of controlled paraphernalia if (i) such individual, in good faith, renders emergency care or assistance, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or the administration of naloxone or other opioid antagonist for overdose reversal, to an individual experiencing an overdose while another individual seeks or obtains emergency medical attention; (ii) such individual remains at the scene of the overdose or at any location to which he or the individual requiring emergency medical attention has been transported; (iii) such individual identifies himself to the law-enforcement officer who responds; and (iv) the evidence for a prosecution of one of the enumerated offenses would have been obtained only as a result of the individual's rendering emergency care or assistance.
Current law prohibits arrest or prosecution for such offenses only to an individual who seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for himself or another individual or who is experiencing an overdose when another individual seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for him.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102028D pdf | impact statement
- 01/22/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21102028D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/06/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102028D
- 01/06/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/14/21 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/15/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/20/21 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (19-Y 3-N)
- 01/21/21 House: Read first time
- 01/22/21 House: Read second time
- 01/22/21 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/22/21 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1821E
- 01/22/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21102028D-E
- 01/25/21 House: Read third time and passed House (87-Y 13-N)
- 01/25/21 House: VOTE: Passage (87-Y 13-N)
- 01/26/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/26/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)