STATEMENT TO
[First Reprint]
SENATE, No. 2323
with Senate Floor Amendments
(Proposed by Senator GOPAL)
ADOPTED: NOVEMBER 16, 2020
These floor amendments remove language that requires a prescriber to issue a patient a prescription for an opioid antidote if the patient has been dispensed a benzodiazepine drug that is a Schedule III or Schedule IV controlled dangerous substance within the preceding 45 days.