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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 271
BY REPRESENTATIVE MILLS
CRIME: Creates the crime of illegally selling urine or adulterants to circumvent screening
tests
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 14:102.24, relative to offenses affecting the public generally; to create the2
crime of unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying a screening3
test; to provide for penalties; to create certain presumptions; to provide for4
definitions; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 14:102.24 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง102.24. Unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying a screening8
test9
A. Unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying or altering10
a drug, urine, or alcohol screening test is committed when a person intentionally:11
(1) Sells, trades, furnishes, supplies, gives, distributes, or markets human or12
synthetic urine in this state or transports human or synthetic urine into this state with13
the intent of using the urine to falsify or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol14
screening test.15
(2) Advertises for sale any product designed to falsify or alter a urine, drug,16
or alcohol screening test.17
(3) Adulterates a urine or other bodily fluid sample with the intent to falsify18
or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.19 HLS 10RS-1054 ENGROSSED
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(4) Possesses adulterants which are intended to be used to adulterate a urine1
or other bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or altering results in a urine,2
drug, or alcohol screening test.3
(5) Sells, trades, furnishes, supplies, gives, distributes, or markets an4
adulterant with the intent by the seller or marketer that the product be used to5
adulterate a urine or other bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or6
altering results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.7
B. The intent to falsify or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening8
test shall be presumed if either of the following occur:9
(1) A heating element or any other device used to thwart a drug screening10
test accompanies the sale, trading, furnishing, supplying, giving, distribution, or11
marketing of urine or adulterants.12
(2) Instructions that provide a method for thwarting a drug screening test13
accompany the sale, giving, distribution, or marketing of urine or adulterants.14
C. As used in this Section, "adulterant" means a substance that is not15
expected to be in human urine or a substance expected to be present in human urine16
but that is at a concentration so high that it is not consistent with human urine,17
including, but not limited to:18
(1) Bleach.19
(2) Chromium.20
(3) Creatinine.21
(4) Detergent.22
(5) Glutaraldehyde.23
(6) Hydrochloric acid.24
(7) Hydroiodic acid.25
(8) Iodine.26
(9) Nitrite.27
(10) Peroxidase.28
(11) Potassium dichromate.29 HLS 10RS-1054 ENGROSSED
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(12) Potassium nitrite.1
(13) Pyridinium chlorochromate.2
(14) Sodium nitrite.3
D. Whoever commits the crime of unlawfully supplying any product for the4
purpose of falsifying or altering a drug, urine, or alcohol screening test shall be fined5
not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or6
both.7
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
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Abstract: Creates the crime of unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of
falsifying or altering a screening test.
Proposed law creates the crime of unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of
falsifying or altering a screening test.
Proposed law provides that unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying
or altering a drug, urine, or alcohol screening test is committed when a person intentionally:
(1)Sells, trades, furnishes, supplies, gives, distributes, or markets human or synthetic
urine in this state or transports human or synthetic urine into this state with the intent
of using the urine to falsify or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.
(2)Advertises for sale any product designed to falsify or alter a urine, drug, or alcohol
screening test.
(3)Adulterates a urine or other bodily fluid sample with the intent to falsify or alter
results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.
(4)Possesses adulterants which are intended to be used to adulterate a urine or other
bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or altering results in a urine, drug,
or alcohol screening test.
(5)Sells, trades, furnishes, supplies, gives, distributes, or markets an adulterant with the
intent by the seller or marketer that the product be used to adulterate a urine or other
bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or altering results in a urine, drug,
or alcohol screening test.
Proposed law defines "adulterant".
Proposed law provides penalties of imprisonment for not more than six months, or a fine of
not more than $500, or both.
(Adds R.S. 14:102.24)