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SB174 Alabama 2020 Session

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Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Sam Givhan
Session
Regular Session 2020
Title
Controlled substances, relating to Schedule II, adding certain named chemical compounds of Tianeptine, Sec. 20-2-25 am'd.
Description

This bill would add certain named chemical compounds of Tianeptine to Schedule II of the controlled substances list. Possession, distribution, and trafficking of these compounds would be deemed unlawful and violators would be subject to criminal penalties for distribution

Placing Tianeptine on Schedule II would allow for future legal possession and use by medical prescription if Tianeptine ever were to be approved for human medical use by the FDA

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

To amend Section 20-2-25, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to Schedule II of the controlled substances list, to include additional controlled substances; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose of effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.

Subjects
Controlled Substances

Bill Text

Note: Bills that change current law do not show the amended text correctly below. Please view Original PDF to see amended sections: SB174 Alabama 2020 Session - Introduced - PDF

This bill would add certain named chemical compounds of Tianeptine to Schedule II of the controlled substances list. Possession, distribution, and trafficking of these compounds would be deemed unlawful and violators would be subject to criminal penalties for distribution

Placing Tianeptine on Schedule II would allow for future legal possession and use by medical prescription if Tianeptine ever were to be approved for human medical use by the FDA

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

To amend Section 20-2-25, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to Schedule II of the controlled substances list, to include additional controlled substances; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose of effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.

Section 1

Section 20-2-25, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows:

§20-2-25.

The controlled substances listed in this section are included in Schedule II:

(1) Any of the following substances, except those narcotic drugs listed in other schedules, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

a. Opium and opiate and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate.

b. Any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in paragraph a, but not including the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium.

c. Opium poppy and poppy straw.

d. Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions which do not contain cocaine or ecgonine.

e. Tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of Tianeptine, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof which is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with Tianeptine."

(2) Any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, whenever the existence of these isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation:

a. Alphaprodine;

b. Anileridine;

c. Bezitramide;

d. Dihydrocodeine;

e. Diphenoxylate;

f. Fentanyl;

g. Isomethadone;

h. Levomethorphan;

i. Levorphanol;

j. Metazocine;

k. Methadone;

m. Moramide - Intermediate, 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1, 1-diphenyl-propane-carboxylic acid;

n. Pethidine;

o. Pethidine - Intermediate-A, 4-cyano-l-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine;

p. Pethidine - Intermediate-B, ethyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylate;

q. Pethidine - Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid;

r. Phenazocine;

s. Piminodine;

t. Racemethorphan;

u. Racemorphan."

Section 2

Although this bill would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds, the bill is excluded from further requirements and application under Amendment 621, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, because the bill defines a new crime of amends the definition of an existing crime.

Section 3

This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
February 11, 2020 S Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary

Bill Documents

Document Type Document Location
Bill Text http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2020RS/PrintFiles/SB174-int.pdf

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