HB516 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Arnold Mooney Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Drug screenings, sale or marketing of human or synthetic urine to defraud a drug or alcohol screening test prohibited, possession, sale, or advertising of adultrants designed to defeat a screening test prohibited, criminal penalties

Description

This bill would provide criminal and civil penalties for the following: (1) Selling, giving away, distributing, or marketing or transporting into this state human or synthetic urine with the intent to defraud or cause deceitful results in a drug or alcohol screening test; (2) attempting to defeat a screening test by the substitution or spiking of a urine sample; (3) advertising or selling any product designed to thwart or defeat a screening test; (4) adulterating a urine sample with intent to defraud a screening test; (5) possessing adulterants intended to be used to adulterate a urine or other bodily fluid sample for the purpose of defrauding or causing deceitful results in a screening test; and (6) selling or marketing an adulterant with the intent by the seller or marketer that the product be used to adulterate a urine or other bodily fluid sample.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Crimes and Offenses