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ACT No. 361
Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 271
BY REPRESENTATIVE MILLS
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
(4) Possesses adulterants which are intended to be used to adulterate a urine20
or other bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or altering results in a urine,21
drug, or alcohol screening test.22 ENROLLEDHB NO. 271
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(5) Sells, trades, furnishes, supplies, gives, distributes, or markets an1
adulterant with the intent by the seller or marketer that the product be used to2
adulterate a urine or other bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or3
altering results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.4
B. The intent to falsify or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening5
test shall be presumed if either of the following occur:6
(1) A heating element or any other device used to thwart a drug screening7
test accompanies the sale, trading, furnishing, supplying, giving, distribution, or8
marketing of urine or adulterants.9
(2) Instructions that provide a method for thwarting a drug screening test10
accompany the sale, giving, distribution, or marketing of urine or adulterants.11
C. As used in this Section, "adulterant" means a substance that is not12
expected to be in human urine or a substance expected to be present in human urine13
but that is at a concentration so high that it is not consistent with human urine,14
including, but not limited to:15
(1) Bleach.16
(2) Chromium.17
(3) Creatinine.18
(4) Detergent.19
(5) Glutaraldehyde.20
(6) Hydrochloric acid.21
(7) Hydroiodic acid.22
(8) Iodine.23
(9) Nitrite.24
(10) Peroxidase.25
(11) Potassium dichromate.26
(12) Potassium nitrite.27
(13) Pyridinium chlorochromate.28
(14) Sodium nitrite.29 ENROLLEDHB NO. 271
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D. Whoever commits the crime of unlawfully supplying any product for the1
purpose of falsifying or altering a drug, urine, or alcohol screening test shall be fined2
not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or3
both.4
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: