Texas Lawmakers File Bills Aiming to Legalize Fentanyl Testing Strips

A Drug Enforcement Administration chemist checks confiscated powder containing fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory in New York on Oct. 8, 2019. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

Several Texas lawmakers have filed bills they hope will make possessing fentanyl test strips legal. Currently, the test strips are classified as drug paraphernalia under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.

“Currently, 19 states in our country allow these test strips to be used to keep their citizens safe. But Texas is not one of them,” state Rep. James Talarico told KXAN News.