Bill Text: CA SB786 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Controlled substances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB786 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB786-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 786	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Dutton

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 11379 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to controlled substances.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 786, as introduced, Dutton. Controlled substances.
   Existing law makes it felony to transport, import into this state,
sell, furnish, administer, or give away specified controlled
substances, unless upon the prescription of a physician, dentist,
podiatrist, or veterinarian licensed to practice in this state.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 11379 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   11379.  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) and
in Article 7 (commencing with Section 4211) of Chapter 9 of Division
2 of the Business and Professions Code, every person who transports,
imports into this state, sells, furnishes, administers, or gives
away, or offers to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish,
administer, or give away, or attempts to import into this state or
transport any controlled substance which is (1) classified in
Schedule III, IV, or V and which is not a narcotic drug, except
subdivision (g) of Section 11056, (2) specified in subdivision (d) of
Section 11054, except paragraphs (13), (14), (15), (20), (21), (22),
and (23) of subdivision (d), (3) specified in paragraph (11) of
subdivision (c) of Section 11056, (4) specified in paragraph (2) or
(3) of subdivision (f) of Section 11054, or (5) specified in
subdivision (d) or (e), except paragraph (3) of subdivision (e), or
specified in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (f), of
Section 11055, unless upon the prescription of a physician, dentist,
podiatrist, or veterinarian, licensed to practice in this state,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of
two, three, or four years.
   (b)  Notwithstanding the penalty provisions of subdivision (a),
any person who transports for sale any controlled  substances
  substance  specified in subdivision (a) within
this state from one county to another noncontiguous county shall be
punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or nine
years.