Opioid Scheduling Bill, Michigan Storm Probe, Missouri Mortality Report
By OmniLegislation Data Desk
Published August 31, 2026
A federal bill to schedule emerging synthetic opioids, a Michigan Public Service Commission investigation into utility storm response, and Missouri's report on preventable maternal deaths were among the items that entered the record on August 30. Across every jurisdiction, 380 items entered the record that day.
Why it matters: Congressional Judiciary Committee trackers now have a new opioid-scheduling bill to follow, and federal regulation watchers have 86 filings from the collection day to review.
What moved
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End Gas Station Heroin Act (SB5383), federal. Proposes amendments to the Controlled Substances Act that would schedule the synthetic opioids MGM-15 and MGM-16, along with synthetic 7-hydroxymitragynine and Mitragynine Pseudoindoxyl above stated thresholds, as Schedule I substances, and would expand enforcement authority against manufacturers and distributors of these substances sold at gas stations and convenience stores. Status: Introduced. The bill was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary on August 8 and now awaits committee or floor action in the chamber of origin.
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MPSC Spotlight | July 2026 Edition, Michigan. A Michigan Public Service Commission newsletter announcing an investigation into utility responses to July storms that caused widespread outages, with comprehensive reports due from Consumers Energy, DTE Electric, and Indiana Michigan Power by August 27, 2026, alongside public workshops on energy affordability scheduled for Grand Rapids and Detroit. The notice is a newsletter, not a rule filing.
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Missouri's annual maternal mortality report published, Missouri. The Department of Health and Senior Services released a five year analysis, covering 2019 through 2023, on behalf of the state's Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board. It identifies cardiovascular disease and mental health conditions, including substance use disorders, as leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths, and states that 79 percent of those deaths were judged preventable, with an average of 68 Missouri women dying while pregnant or within a year of pregnancy each year. This is a report publication with no further procedural step stated.
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ARRC Live Meeting Updates - Emergency Rulemaking Approval, Iowa. A notice that the Iowa Administrative Rules Review Committee approved emergency rulemaking by the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System in a unanimous six to zero vote. Specific details of the emergency rule are not provided in this notice. Status: emergency rulemaking approved; no further procedural step is stated.
By the numbers
- Regulations across all jurisdictions numbered 346, about seven and a half times the trailing weekend day average of 46. August 30 is a data-load day for regulations, so that total reflects a pipeline backlog rather than new rulemaking.
- Federal regulations made up 86 of that total, close to twice the federal trailing weekend day average of 42; the last day at or above this count was August 15.
- States combined logged 271 items across 25 states, with regulation counts in Iowa (78), Alaska (59), Ohio (47), and Missouri (12) all tied to the same data-load day rather than to new state rulemaking.
- Federal court opinions numbered 18, well below the trailing weekend day average of about 64, a quiet Sunday for federal opinions.
Bill actions
No tracked bill carried an action dated August 30.
| State | Type | Collected | Weekend average | Highest in tracking (date) |
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| US | Regulation | 86 | 42.38 | 1303 (June 15, data load day) |
| US | Opinion | 18 | 63.88 | 409 (May 18, data load day) |
| US | All types | 109 | 110.25 | 1728 (June 15, data load day) |
| IA | Regulation | 78 | 0.25 | 78 (August 30, this day; data load day) |
| AK | Regulation | 59 | 0.00 | 59 (August 30, this day; data load day) |
| OH | Regulation | 47 | 0.00 | 47 (August 30, this day; data load day) |
| MO | Regulation | 12 | 0.00 | 12 (August 30, this day; data load day) |
Methodology
"Collected" means the date OmniLegislation's pipeline processed each record, not the date it was filed, decided, or published at its source. Counts are deduplicated processed records from OmniLegislation's own pipeline. Item descriptions come from the pipeline's own summaries of each record. Baselines are trailing 30 day daily averages for the same kind of day (weekend days against weekend days, weekdays against weekdays), excluding known data-load days; the highest single-day counts are measured since tracking began on April 5, 2026 and include load days, which are labelled. Bill actions cover tracked bills only. This report covers August 30, 2026. Bill records originate from LegiScan; court opinions from CourtListener, a Free Law Project service; federal regulations from the Federal Register.