Bill Text: IL HB0634 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning possession of hypodermic syringes and needles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0634 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0634-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB0634 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan 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.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act is
amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
(720 ILCS 635/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-50)
Sec. 1. Possession of hypodermic syringes and needles.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no person, not
being a physician, dentist, chiropodist or veterinarian
licensed under the the laws of this State or of the state where
he resides, or a registered professional nurse, or a registered
embalmer, manufacturer or dealer in embalming supplies,
wholesale druggist, manufacturing pharmacist, registered
pharmacist, manufacturer of surgical instruments, industrial
user, official of any government having possession of the
articles hereinafter mentioned by reason of his or her official
duties, nurse or a medical laboratory technician acting under
the direction of a physician or dentist, employee of an
incorporated hospital acting under the direction of its
superintendent or officer in immediate charge, or a carrier or
messenger engaged in the transportation of the articles, or the
holder of a permit issued under Section 5 of this Act, or a
farmer engaged in the use of the instruments on livestock, or a

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person engaged in chemical, clinical, pharmaceutical or other
scientific research, shall have in his or her possession a
hypodermic syringe, hypodermic needle, or any instrument
adapted for the use of controlled substances or cannabis by
subcutaneous injection.
(b) A person who is at least 18 years of age may purchase
from a pharmacy and have in his or her possession up to 100
hypodermic syringes or needles.
(Source: P.A. 100-326, eff. 1-1-18.)