2014 Senate Bill 859

Heroin overdose treatment package

Introduced in the Senate

March 11, 2014

Introduced by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R-20)

To require the state-authorized “medical control authorities” responsible for establishing certain treatment protocols in a county or region to establish protocols that require ambulances to carry an “opioid antagonist” (such as Naloxone), and require emergency services personnel to be trained to administer them.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

May 1, 2014

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

June 4, 2014

Amendment offered

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)

To require the state-authorized “medical control authorities” responsible for establishing certain treatment protocols in a county or region to establish protocols for ambulances carrying an “opioid antagonist” (such as Naloxone), and emergency services personnel being trained to administer them. Whether the vehicles actually carried these substances would be at the authority's discretion.

Received in the House

June 4, 2014

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary