2014 House Bill 5604

Extend heroin overdose treatment immunities

Introduced in the House

May 27, 2014

Introduced by Rep. Bill LaVoy (D-17)

To prohibit charging or prosecuting an individual for illegal drug possession or use based on the person seeking medical treatment for a heroin overdose, and grant immunity from lawsuits, criminal prosecution or administrative sanction to a person who in good faith administers an “opioid antagonist” (such as Naloxone) to such a person. The bill would also 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”.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary