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2016 SESSION
HB 284 Controlled substances; manufacturing, etc., resulting in overdose.
Introduced by: Christopher E. Collins | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Manufacturing, etc., a controlled substance resulting in overdose; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a Schedule I or II controlled substance where the use of such substance results in another person's overdose. The bill provides for an affirmative defense to prosecution for this offense if the offender seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for the other person experiencing the overdose and such person (i) remains at the scene of the overdose or at any location to which the other persons is transported for emergency medical attention until a law-enforcement officer responds to the report of an overdose or, if no law-enforcement officer is present at either the scene or the other location, cooperates with law enforcement; (ii) identifies himself to the responding law-enforcement officer; and (iii) cooperates, upon request, with any criminal investigation reasonably related to the controlled substance that resulted in the overdose.
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HISTORY
- 01/01/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101274D
- 01/01/16 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/16 House: Left in Courts of Justice