Storage and Disposal of Prescription Drugs and Sharps

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct a study of the safe collection and proper disposal of sharps; establishing the collection methods to be considered in conducting the study; authorizing the departments to work or contract with counties, municipalities, and private entities; requiring the departments to submit a specified report to the Governor and the Legislature by a certain date; providing requirements for establishments that store, warehouse, or hold certain prescription drugs solely for the purpose of destruction, etc.

Every action

8 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 12, 2025SenateFiled
2. Feb 25, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy · Senate Health Policy
3. Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 6, 2025CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/11/25, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building · Senate Health Policy
5. Mar 11, 2025CommitteeFavorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 1 · Senate Health Policy9–1 vote
6. Mar 12, 2025CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
7. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
8. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Danny BurgessR Primary sponsor · District 23