The small but mighty group of people fought for a man's life on top of the World Trade Center subway elevator entrance in New York.
House Bill 2 would establish an overdose prevention site program.
How much this will impact a nationwide overdose crisis is not clear, even though better access to naloxone is a priority.
Health officials in the Chicago area say overdose deaths are not slowing, due a 'drug soup' of opioids, hallucinogens, chemicals and other substances sold as all-in-one drugs.
Opioid overdose deaths in Illinois have tripled in the past decade, according to health officials.
The change is meant to help harm-reduction programs more easily access the opioid antidote by making them exempt from certain FDA rules.