EHB 1574: Protecting access to life-saving care and substance use services.
Did not pass. The 2025-26 session has ended.
- Sponsor
- Macri
- Introduced
- January 24, 2025
- Status
- H Rules 3C
- Last action
- By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading. (March 12, 2026)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Expands protections for a person seeking medical assistance for someone experiencing a drug-related overdose or who experiences a drug-related overdose and needs medical assistance. Adds health care facilities to the list of entities that are not prohibited from distributing or using public health supplies, including syringe equipment, smoking equipment, or drug testing equipment. Exempts public health and syringe service program clients from arrest and prosecution for taking samples of substances and using drug testing equipment to analyze or detect substances. Modifies the state preemption of drug paraphernalia regulation by eliminating the existing carveout for city or county laws or ordinances related to the establishment or regulation of harm reduction services concerning drug paraphernalia.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 12, 202556 yea · 41 nay · 1 not voting
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 11, 202655 yea · 42 nay · 1 not voting
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