Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: recovery of law enforcement agency costs for administration of naloxone or another opioid antagonist. (FE)
Court — Procedure Crime and criminals Drugs Police
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law provides that a sentencing court may order a criminal defendant
to pay certain costs, including the costs of a law enforcement agency withdrawing a
defendant's blood in certain cases when intoxication is an element of the offense.
This bill provides that a sentencing court may order a criminal defendant to pay a
law enforcement agency's costs of administration of naloxone or another opioid
antagonist to a defendant if the defendant was undergoing or was believed to be
undergoing an opioid-related drug overdose during the course of the investigation
that resulted in the conviction.