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The Week AheadAdditional amendments and motions offered by House Republicans
Despite the obvious dangers of children being exposed to fentanyl and no measures in place to protect them, the best Democrats could muster was Senate Bill 6109, which instructs courts to give “great weight” to the lethality of synthetic opioids when considering whether a child should be removed from a home. Amendment 1164 eliminated the “great weight” language and instead would have established a rebuttable presumption that removal is necessary to prevent imminent harm when fentanyl is in the home. House Democrats voted it down, 49-46.
The Democrats’ operating budget made almost no new investments in public safety and encampment response. House Republican Amendment 1104 to Senate Bill 5950 would have provided $150 million per year in grants to local law enforcement and $320 million to clean up encampments. It also included $28 million in grants to transit agencies to enforce and prevent drug use in transit facilities, and to decontaminate transit facilities from methamphetamines and fentanyl. House Democrats voted it down, 53-42.
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