DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 136 Engrossed 2020 Regular Session Mincey
Abstract: Creates the crime of adulterating a food product, provides elements of the offense,
provides for definitions, and provides criminal penalties.
Proposed law creates the crime of adulterating a food product and defines the offense as the
intentional contamination of a food product by adding to the product, or mingling with the product,
any feces, urine, blood, saliva, semen, any form of human or animal waste, or other bodily substance
with the intent that the product be provided to or consumed by another person who has no knowledge
of nor consents to the contamination.
Proposed law defines "food product".
Proposed law provides that whoever commits the proposed law crime shall be fined not more than
$2,000, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, or both.
(Adds R.S. 14:38.1.1)