SB259 Alabama 2018 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Controlled substances; controlled substances schedules; statutory schedules repealed; schedules of the State Board of Health to be the official controlled substances list; Secs. 20-2-23, 20-2-25, 20-2-27, 20-2-29, 20-2-31 repealed; Secs. 20-2-20, 20-2-32 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, certain controlled substances are enumerated in schedules by statute</p><p class="bill_description"> Also under existing law, the State Board of Health adopts a Controlled Substances List that enumerates certain controlled substances in schedules and is required to update the Controlled Substances List annually</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would repeal the statutory controlled substances schedules and would provide that the Controlled Substances List adopted by the State Board of Health is the official list of scheduled controlled substances</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to controlled substances; to amend Sections 20-2-20 and 20-2-32, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that the State Board of Health, by rule, may add substances to or delete or reschedule substances enumerated in the Controlled Substances List adopted by the board; to provide that the Controlled Substances List adopted by the State Board of Health supersedes the statutory schedules of controlled substances; and to repeal Sections 20-2-23, 20-2-25, 20-2-27, 20-2-29, and 20-2-31, Code of Alabama 1975. </p>

Subjects

Controlled Substances