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 Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning possession of hypodermic syringes and needles. LRB103 03399 RLC 48405 b A BILL FOR 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. 22-50 720 ILCS 635/1 from Ch. 38, par. 22-50 Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning possession of hypodermic syringes and needles. LRB103 03399 RLC 48405 b LRB103 03399 RLC 48405 b A BILL FOR
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. 22-50 720 ILCS 635/1 from Ch. 38, par. 22-50
720 ILCS 635/1 from Ch. 38, par. 22-50
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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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
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. 22-50 720 ILCS 635/1 from Ch. 38, par. 22-50
720 ILCS 635/1 from Ch. 38, par. 22-50
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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720 ILCS 635/1 from Ch. 38, par. 22-50
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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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