Bill Text: IL HB0803 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Ephedra Prohibition Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the findings of the General Assembly.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB0803 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB0803-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Ephedra Prohibition Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 602/5)
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| 7 | Sec. 5. Findings. The
The General Assembly finds the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | following:
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| 9 | (1) Over 3 billion servings of ephedra are consumed by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Americans each
year.
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| 11 | (2) Ephedra, or ma huang, has been associated with a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | wide range of severe
adverse
events, including
death.
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| 13 | (3) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | over 18,000
reports of adverse reactions
by ephedra
users, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | including strokes, seizures, heart attacks, and deaths.
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| 16 | (4) The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Health and Human
Services
noted in a
report on ephedra | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | adverse events that 60% of those adverse events were
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| 19 | experienced by people under the age
of 40.
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| 20 | (5) A study reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | concluded that,
compared with
other herbs, ephedra is
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| 22 | associated with a
greatly increased risk for adverse | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | reactions and
that the use of
ephedra should be restricted.
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| 1 | (6) The American Medical Association and the consumer | ||||||
| 2 | group,
Public
Citizen, have
called for a nationwide ban on | ||||||
| 3 | ephedra.
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| 4 | (7) The National Collegiate Athletics Association, the | ||||||
| 5 | National Football
League,
and
the
International Olympic | ||||||
| 6 | Committee have all banned ephedra use by their athletes
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| 7 | because of
concerns about the safety of this dietary | ||||||
| 8 | supplement.
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| 9 | (8) The U.S. Army has banned the sale of ephedra | ||||||
| 10 | products in army
commissaries
worldwide
after 33 army | ||||||
| 11 | personnel died from consuming ephedra products.
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| 12 | (9) Canada, Britain, Germany, and Australia have all | ||||||
| 13 | taken steps to
restrict the
sale of ephedra
products.
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| 14 | (Source: P.A. 93-8, eff. 5-28-03.)
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