Senate Bill 645 passed unanimously this week, allowing medical examiners to designate fentanyl deaths as poisonings. This will allow prosecutors to charge distributors with murder.
"The prosecutors and medical examiners felt that we need to change the language," Huffman said. "It will allow for the death certificate to indicate that fentanyl poisoning contributed to the cause of death when the medical examiner identifies a lethal amount of fentanyl."
Thursday in Fort Worth, a fentanyl task force met at New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church. Among the speakers was Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn. "It’s in our urban cities, gated communities, everywhere, one and dead. Unfortunately, it’s in our jail," he said. Waybourn talked about how the number of lethal doses continue to increase in every seizure they make, saying a year ago it was 4 out of every 6 pills. Now, the DEA told him it's 6 out of 10.
"We are looking for solutions. [The pastor] is so right. We are not going to arrest our way of this deal. We need to do some proactive things," he said.Gov. Greg Abbott has already said he will sign it into law if it makes it to his desk.
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