HB0565 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB095 07953 KBJ 28115 b

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0565

Introduced 2/5/2007, by Rep. John E. Bradley

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 690/4

from Ch. 38, par. 81-4

Amends the Use of Intoxicating Compounds Act. Increases the penalties for a second or subsequent violation of the Act in which another penalty is not otherwise provided from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public health.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Use of Intoxicating Compounds Act is amended by changing Section 4 as follows:

(720 ILCS 690/4) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-4)

Sec. 4. Sentence.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), violation of this Act is a Class C misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense.

(b) (1) The knowing ingestion of any compound, liquid, or chemical containing the alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, or scopolamine is a Class A misdemeanor.

(2) The sale, offer for sale, delivery, or giving to any person of a compound, liquid, or chemical containing the alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, or scopolamine is a Class 4 felony.

(3) This subsection (b) does not prohibit the sale, offer for sale, delivery, giving, or ingestion of a compound, liquid, or chemical containing the alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, or scopolamine under the direction or prescription of a practitioner authorized to so direct or prescribe as provided in Section 3.

(Source: P.A. 89-640, eff. 1-1-97.)