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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5140
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 450
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. PERILLO, 113th Dist.
AN ACT REQUIRING TESTING FOR CERTAIN PHARMACEUTICALS
IN RESPONSE TO DRUG -RELATED DEATHS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to require the Office of the 1
Chief Medical Examiner to (1) test, for a period not less than five years, 2
any person whose death was drug -related for the presence of 3
medications used to treat opioid use disorder in such person's system, 4
and (2) make the results of such testing available to the Department of 5
Public Health. 6
Statement of Purpose:
To collect and track data concerning drug-related deaths in
Connecticut.