Bill Text: IL HB2868 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Kratom Consumer Protection Act. Establishes safety requirements for the preparation, distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of Kratom products and extracts. Prohibits the preparation, distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of adulterated Kratom products and extracts. Provides that a processor of Kratom products that violates the Act is subject to an administrative penalty of not more than $5,000 for the first offense and not more than $10,000 for the second or subsequent offense. Provides that the penalty shall be collected by the Department of Public Health and paid into the Food and Drug Safety Fund. Requires, upon the request of a person to whom an administrative penalty is issued, the Director of Public Health to conduct a hearing in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Provides that a processor shall not distribute, sell, or expose for sale a Kratom product to a person under 18 years of age. Provides that a person who violates the age restrictions shall be punished as provided in the Kratom Control Act. Provides that a processor does not violate the Act if it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that the processor relied in good faith upon the representations of a manufacturer, processor, packer, or distributor of food represented to be a Kratom product.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2868 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2868-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2868 Introduced , by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Kratom Consumer Protection Act. Establishes safety requirements for the preparation, distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of Kratom products and extracts. Prohibits the preparation, distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of adulterated Kratom products and extracts. Provides that a processor of Kratom products that violates the Act is subject to an administrative penalty of not more than $5,000 for the first offense and not more than $10,000 for the second or subsequent offense. Provides that the penalty shall be collected by the Department of Public Health and paid into the Food and Drug Safety Fund. Requires, upon the request of a person to whom an administrative penalty is issued, the Director of Public Health to conduct a hearing in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Provides that a processor shall not distribute, sell, or expose for sale a Kratom product to a person under 18 years of age. Provides that a person who violates the age restrictions shall be punished as provided in the Kratom Control Act. Provides that a processor does not violate the Act if it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that the processor relied in good faith upon the representations of a manufacturer, processor, packer, or distributor of food represented to be a Kratom product.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning Kratom.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Kratom
Consumer Protection Act.
Section 5. Definitions.
(a) As used in this Act:
"Director" means the Director of Public Health.
"Food" means a food, food product, food ingredient,
dietary ingredient, dietary supplement, or beverage for human
consumption. "Food" includes a Kratom product.
"Kratom extract" means a food product or dietary
ingredient containing any part of the leaf of the plant
Mitragyna speciosa that has been extracted and concentrated in
order to provide more standardized dosing.
"Kratom product" means a food product or dietary
ingredient containing any part of the leaf of the plant
Mitragyna speciosa, or an extract of it, that is manufactured
as a powder, capsule, pill, beverage, or other edible product.
"Processor" means a person who sells, prepares,
manufactures, distributes, or maintains Kratom products or who
advertises, represents, or holds himself or herself out as
selling, preparing, or maintaining Kratom products.

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Section 10. Kratom product limitations. A processor shall
not prepare, distribute, sell, or expose for sale any of the
following:
(1) A Kratom product that is adulterated with a
dangerous non-Kratom substance. For purposes of this Act,
a Kratom product is adulterated with a dangerous
non-Kratom substance if the Kratom product is mixed or
packed with a non-Kratom substance and that substance
affects the quality or strength of the Kratom product to
such a degree as to render the Kratom product injurious to
a consumer.
(2) A Kratom product that is contaminated with a
dangerous non-Kratom substance. For purposes of this Act,
a Kratom product is contaminated with a dangerous
non-Kratom substance if the Kratom product contains a
poisonous or otherwise deleterious non-Kratom ingredient,
including, but not limited to, the substances listed in
Section 204, 206, 208, 210, or 212 of the Illinois
Controlled Substances Act.
(3) A Kratom extract that contains levels of residual
solvents higher than is allowed by United States
Pharmacopeia (USP) 467.
(4) A Kratom product containing a level of
7-hydroxymitragynine in the alkaloid fraction that is
greater than 1.5% of the overall alkaloid composition of

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the product.
(5) A Kratom product containing any synthetic
alkaloid, including, but not limited to, synthetic
mitragynine, synthetic 7-hydroxymitragynine, or any other
synthetically derived compound of the Kratom plant.
(6) A Kratom product that does not provide adequate
labeling directions necessary for safe and effective use
by consumers, including, but not limited to, a recommended
serving size.
Section 15. Age limits. A processor shall not distribute,
sell, or expose for sale a Kratom product to a person under 18
years of age. A person who violates this Section shall be
punished as provided in the Kratom Control Act.
Section 20. Violations.
(a) A processor who violates Section 10 is subject to an
administrative penalty of not more than $5,000 for a first
offense and not more than $10,000 for a second or subsequent
offense. The penalty shall be collected by the Department of
Public Health and deposited into the Food and Drug Safety
Fund. Upon the request of a person to whom an administrative
penalty is issued, the Director shall conduct a hearing in
accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
(b) A processor does not violate Section 10 if it is shown
by a preponderance of the evidence that the processor relied

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in good faith upon the representations of a manufacturer,
processor, packer, or distributor of food represented to be a
Kratom product.