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Larger cities may get needle exchange option

Excellent news! SB 188 - authorizing local-control needle exchange programs in Texas' largest cities and counties - passed out of the House Public Health Committee this afternoon on a 7-3 vote! Outstanding!Voting in favor of the legislation, according to the needle-exchange focused blog, Sifting the Haystack, were: Garnet Coleman, John E. Davis, Veronica Gonzales, Susan King (a professional nurse), Elliott Naishtat, Vicki Truitt, and Doctor John Zerwas. Three of those - Davis, Truitt and Zerwas - are pickups from the House floor vote in 2007 that authorized a pilot needle exchange program in San Antonio.Now SB 188 heads to the Calendars Committee, where I'm pleased to see that the Chairman, Brian McCall, was actually one of the authors of a companion needle exchange bill - HB 272 by Ortiz...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).