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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0437 Introduced 2/2/2023, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 720 ILCS 635/1 | from Ch. 38, par. 22-50 |
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Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning possession of hypodermic syringes and needles.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB0437 | | LRB103 03399 RLC 48405 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (720 ILCS 635/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-50)
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| 7 | | Sec. 1. Possession of hypodermic syringes and needles.
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| 8 | | (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no person, not |
| 9 | | being a
physician,
dentist, chiropodist or
veterinarian |
| 10 | | licensed under the
the laws of this State or of the state where |
| 11 | | he
resides, or a registered professional nurse, or a |
| 12 | | registered embalmer,
manufacturer or dealer in embalming |
| 13 | | supplies, wholesale druggist,
manufacturing pharmacist, |
| 14 | | registered pharmacist, manufacturer of surgical
instruments, |
| 15 | | industrial user, official of any government having possession
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| 16 | | of the articles hereinafter mentioned by reason of his or her |
| 17 | | official duties,
nurse or a medical laboratory technician |
| 18 | | acting under the direction of a
physician or dentist, employee |
| 19 | | of an incorporated hospital acting under the
direction of its |
| 20 | | superintendent or officer in immediate charge, or a
carrier or |
| 21 | | messenger engaged in the transportation of the articles, or |
| 22 | | the
holder of a permit issued under Section 5 of this Act, or a |
| 23 | | farmer
engaged in the use of the instruments on livestock, or a |