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Supporting federal funding for substance misuse prevention, treatment, recovery support, and research.

2023 VA General Assembly

Committee Chairs

JCC And Williamsburg Courthouse
2025

Regular Session

Inhaling drugs or other noxious chemical substances, etc.; distribution of nitrous oxide

Introduced by: M. Keith Hodges (Chief Patron)

Prohibits the sale or distribution of a device that is designed or intended to deliver a gas containing nitrous oxide to persons under 18 years of age with exceptions as defined in the bill.

Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV

Introduced by: H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. (Chief Patron)

Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I and IV of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule.

Retail sales and use tax; exemption for prescription medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians; sunset

Introduced by: Alex Q. Askew (Chief Patron)

Extends to July 1, 2028, the exemption from sales and use tax available for the purchase by veterinarians of prescription medicines and drugs that are administered or dispensed to patients within a veterinarian-client-patient relationship that is currently set to expire on July 1, 2025.

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