Bill Title: Criminalizing multiple forms of exposing children to controlled substances and allowing law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening and testing in an instance of suspected or actual criminal exposure to controlled substances.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 10-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety House Journal 3 [HB473 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Jodi Nelson [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-13-ROC	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bill Boyd [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-12-HIL	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Debra DeSimone [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-18-ROC	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Charles Foote [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-13-ROC	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Alicia Gregg [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-07-HIL	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	N/A
Representative Jay Markell [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-18-ROC	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Charles McMahon [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-17-ROC	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Peter Petrigno [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-43-HIL	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kimberly Rice [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-38-HIL	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Sellers [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-18-GRA	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	N/A
Senator Regina Birdsell [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Patrick Long [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-020	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Victoria Sullivan [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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