Bill Text: IL SB0262 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to possess, purchase, deliver, sell, or possess with intent to sell a tableting machine or encapsulating machine knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance in violation of the Act. Provides that a violation is a Class 3 felony. Defines "encapsulating machine" and "tableting machine".

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-11 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0262 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB0262-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0262 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 570/416 new
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to possess, purchase, deliver, sell, or possess with intent to sell a tableting machine or encapsulating machine knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance in violation of the Act. Provides that a violation is a Class 3 felony. Defines "encapsulating machine" and "tableting machine".
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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 Illinois Controlled Substances Act is
amended by adding Section 416 as follows:
(720 ILCS 570/416 new)
Sec. 416. Tableting and encapsulating machines.
(a) In this Section:
"Encapsulating machine" means manual, semiautomatic, or
fully automatic equipment that can be used to fill shells or
capsules with powdered or granular solids or semisolid
material to produce coherent solid contents.
"Tableting machine" means manual, semiautomatic, or fully
automatic equipment that can be used to compact, compress, or
mold powdered or granular solids or semisolid material to
produce fused coherent solid tablets.
(b) It is unlawful for any person to possess, purchase,
deliver, sell, or possess with intent to sell a tableting
machine or encapsulating machine knowing, or under
circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will
be used to manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process,
prepare, or otherwise introduce into the human body a
controlled substance in violation of this Act.

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(c) Any person who violates this Section is guilty of a
Class 3 felony.