Full Text of SB0437 103rd General Assembly
SB0437 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0437 Introduced 2/2/2023, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 720 ILCS 635/1 | from Ch. 38, par. 22-50 |
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Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning possession of hypodermic syringes and needles.
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| | | SB0437 | | LRB103 03399 RLC 48405 b |
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| | 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
| | 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| | 4 | | Section 5. The Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act is | | 5 | | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
| | 6 | | (720 ILCS 635/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-50)
| | 7 | | Sec. 1. Possession of hypodermic syringes and needles.
| | 8 | | (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no person, not | | 9 | | being a
physician,
dentist, chiropodist or
veterinarian | | 10 | | licensed under the
the laws of this State or of the state where | | 11 | | he
resides, or a registered professional nurse, or a | | 12 | | registered embalmer,
manufacturer or dealer in embalming | | 13 | | supplies, wholesale druggist,
manufacturing pharmacist, | | 14 | | registered pharmacist, manufacturer of surgical
instruments, | | 15 | | industrial user, official of any government having possession
| | 16 | | of the articles hereinafter mentioned by reason of his or her | | 17 | | official duties,
nurse or a medical laboratory technician | | 18 | | acting under the direction of a
physician or dentist, employee | | 19 | | of an incorporated hospital acting under the
direction of its | | 20 | | superintendent or officer in immediate charge, or a
carrier or | | 21 | | messenger engaged in the transportation of the articles, or | | 22 | | the
holder of a permit issued under Section 5 of this Act, or a | | 23 | | farmer
engaged in the use of the instruments on livestock, or a |
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| | 1 | | person engaged in
chemical, clinical, pharmaceutical or other | | 2 | | scientific research, or a staff person, volunteer, or | | 3 | | participant in a needle or hypodermic syringe access program, | | 4 | | shall have
in his or her possession a hypodermic syringe, | | 5 | | hypodermic needle, or any
instrument adapted for the use of | | 6 | | controlled substances or cannabis by
subcutaneous injection. | | 7 | | (b) A person who is at least 18 years of age may purchase | | 8 | | from a pharmacy
and have in his or her possession up to 100
| | 9 | | hypodermic
syringes or needles.
| | 10 | | (Source: P.A. 100-326, eff. 1-1-18; 101-356, eff. 8-9-19.)
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