Pressure from the public following a press conference in Sacramento earlier this month protesting the Assembly Public Safety Committee’s shelving of a series of bipartisan fentanyl bills has led the committee to reconsider its decisions, with a special hearing now scheduled for April 27.
“I was so incredibly happy and relieved,” Pamela Smith, mother of 27-year-old fentanyl overdose victim Jackson Smith, told The Epoch Times upon hearing the news. “I believe that exposure to the committee’s behavior, that came to light [at our] press conference, brought such attention and pressure on the Assembly they are finally going to work with us and stop their stall tactics.”
