SACRAMENTO – California Senate Republicans, led by state Sen. Melissa Melendez of Lake Elsinore, put forward an amendment to Assembly Bill 2195 to include “Alexandra’s Law,” which would notify convicted drug dealers that should they be convicted again and kill someone, prosecutors may charge them with manslaughter or murder. The effort was rejected by Senate Democrats.“These drug dealers are poisoning our children,” Melendez said, while pleading to the Senate to support this motion. “We have people who are dying from fentanyl poisoning never to see their families again. I have tried to get this passed three separate times with no success, and I don’t know how much longer we have to wait until we actually do something about this.”Fentanyl is an immensely powerful s
