A bipartisan bill that would expand testing for fentanyl during emergency room drug screenings could have a path through Congress thanks to its support in both chambers, NBC News reported.
The bill would instruct the Department of Health and Human Services to send guidance to hospitals on including fentanyl testing during routine emergency room drug screens, which is required in California and Maryland but not by any federal laws.
Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., along with House Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif.; Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio; and Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., reintroduced the legislation on Tuesday. The bill is known as “Tyler’s Law,” after Tyler Shamash, a California teenager who died from a fentanyl overdose in 2018.
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