A sweeping fentanyl bill has passed the state Senate but it looks different than the version that passed the House.
Senators added more than 30 amendments, including a controversial one around felony possession. If the House doesn’t agree to the changes, the bill will go to a conference committee where lawmakers either work out the differences or the bill dies.
Gallegos is among dozens of parents who came to the state Capitol day after day to tell their stories in committee hearings. Pettersen has seen it up close. When she was just 6 years old, her mom became addicted to prescription drugs, then heroin, then fentanyl.She says 450 people in Colorado are on a waitlist for treatment now. Pettersen wiped away tears as she pleaded with colleagues to pass a bill that provides tens of millions of dollars for treatment, education and harm reduction.
“Someone who deals this drug, and someone dies from it, needs to be held accountable,” said Gallegos. Executive Director Tom Raynes said, “If legislators in the House reinstate the highly restrictive burden requiring prosecutors to prove exactly what a drug user thought they were buying or using, the entire purpose of adding the 1-4 gram felony-level possession is eviscerated, leaving users and sellers to brazenly roam our communities with 20-30-40 fentanyl pills – and they will leave bodies in their wake.
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