Senate extends controlled-substance proximity law to childcare facilities; bill passes second reading 40–0

Senate Bill 504 would expand the state's existing prohibition on distribution, sale, manufacture or possession with intent to distribute controlled substances within a half-mile radius of school grounds to also cover childcare facilities and day programs.

Senator Adams, explaining the bill on the floor, said it brings childcare programs within the radius already applied to public and private elementary, middle and secondary schools and public playgrounds. "This bill extends that and this would include childcare facilities, day programs... that would stop within a half mile distribution of these acts," he said.

A required roll-call second reading was held; the clerk reported a vote of 40–0 in favor of the second reading under the day's rules. The transcript does not include a final enactment vote on third reading during the session excerpt provided.

Supporters framed the change as a clarification and extension of an existing protective radius to additional child-centered facilities; no substantive floor opposition was recorded on the second reading in the provided transcript.