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2024 Op. Mo. Att'y Gen. [1] (2024)

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                          ATTORNEY GENERAL GF MISSOURI

                                    AaNDEW BAILEY


                                        January 2, 2024

                                               OPINION   LETTER  NO.  1-2024

The Honorable John R. Ashcroft
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101

Dear Secretary Ashcroft.

       This opinion letter responds to your request dated December , 20 23, forour review under §
116 334, RSMo  of a proposed summary statement prepared for the petition submitted by JoAnn Franklin,
2024-168. The proposed summary  statement is as follow s:

       Do you uant to amend the Missouri Constitution to:
         allow Missouri licensed Advanced Practice Registered Nurses commonly known as Certified
         Nurse Practitioners, Certified Clinical Nurse Specialists. Certified Nurse Midwifes and
         Certified Nurse A nestherists to prescribe schedule 11-V controlled substances such as
         oxycodone and fentanyL
       r allow the Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to collaborate. w ithout w ritten consent. w ith
         other healthcare professionals as determined by the patient's needs. including but not lmited to
         physicians, pharmacists. registered professional nurses, physical, occupational and speech
         therapists and audiologists: and
       • restrict the General Assembly or executive branch from enacting laws or rules inconsistent with
         this measure?

       Pursuant to  I 16.334. RSMo. we approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement
Because our review of the statement is mrandated by statute, no action thatwe take with respect to such
revien should be constuied as an endorsement of the petition. nor as the expression of any view regarding
the objectives of its proponents.

                                                          Very trulyy ours,



                                                          -ANDREW BAILEY
                                                          Attoirney General



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