HB29 Alabama 2012 1st Special Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

First Special Session 2012

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Paul Beckman
Republican
Session: First Special Session 2012
Title: Prisoners, escaped inmates, notification of state and local agencies and news media, liability limited, Joel Willmore Act, Sec. 14-3-58 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, controlled substances may only be sold by prescription. Under existing law, the State Board of Health has the authority to add, delete, or reschedule substances as controlled substances, but the board must exclude a nonnarcotic substance from a schedule if the substance may lawfully be sold over the counter without a prescription pursuant to federal law.
This bill would allow ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to be sold by prescription by requiring the State Board of Health to classify the drugs as Schedule III controlled substances. This bill would give the board the authority to exempt a product containing any of these substances from classification as a controlled substance if the board finds that the product is effectively formulated to prevent conversion of the active ingredient into methamphetamine or its salts or precursors. This bill would also authorize the board to revoke the exemption upon notification from the Department of Public Safety that the product exempted is not effectively formulated to prevent its conversion to methamphetamine.
Subjects: Prisons and Prisoners

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections