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Relating to controlled substances, including amending certain controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2023
- Done: House committeeJanuary 24, 2023
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 1, 202399–0
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 30, 2023
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 19, 202350–0
- Done: To the GovernorMay 3, 2023
- Done: Signed into lawMay 3, 2023
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What’s in it
AI summary Iowa is updating its lists of controlled substances and chemicals used to make them to match federal government names. These changes affect how certain drugs are classified and how people report the chemicals used to create them. The bill also sets specific fines and prison times for people who break these drug laws.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to controlled substances, including amending certain controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements. The bill makes changes to controlled substance schedules I, IV, and V in Iowa’s uniform controlled substances Act (Code chapter 124) and to the precursor substances reporting requirement in Code chapter 124B to conform to the specific chemical designations of the substances contained in Title of the Code of Federal Regulations, parts 1300, 1308, and 1310. A violation involving a controlled substance included in the bill imposes penalties ranging from a class “B” felony, and in addition to the 25-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for class “B” felons, is also punishable by a fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $100,000; a class “C” felony punishable by imprisonment up to years and a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $50,000; to an aggravated misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment up to years and a fine of at least $855 but not more than $8,540. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
House subcommittee
Named January 12, 2023 (as HSB 25). On January 24, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
1 written public comment to its subcommittee: January 18, 2023 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
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5 for · 0 against · 11 undecided · Who →
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