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House Amendment 8811

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 2539 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 19, by striking line 23 and inserting the
  1  3 following:  
  1  4 "................................................. $    140,576
  1  5    It is the intent of the general assembly that
  1  6 $57,000 of the moneys appropriated in this paragraph
  1  7 shall be used for increased costs associated with
  1  8 requiring persons to provide additional community
  1  9 service pursuant to section 300 of this Act."
  1 10    #2.  Page 34, by inserting after line 27 the
  1 11 following:
  1 12    "Sec. 300.  Section 124.401, subsection 5, Code
  1 13 Supplement 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 14    5.  It is unlawful for any person knowingly or
  1 15 intentionally to possess a controlled substance unless
  1 16 such substance was obtained directly from, or pursuant
  1 17 to, a valid prescription or order of a practitioner
  1 18 while acting in the course of the practitioner's
  1 19 professional practice, or except as otherwise
  1 20 authorized by this chapter.  Any person who violates
  1 21 this subsection is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
  1 22 If the controlled substance is methamphetamine and the
  1 23 violation is a first offense, the person shall perform
  1 24 not less than forty hours of community service in
  1 25 addition to the punishment prescribed in section 903.1
  1 26 for serious misdemeanors.  If the controlled substance
  1 27 is methamphetamine and the person has previously been
  1 28 convicted of violating this subsection, the person
  1 29 shall perform not less than eighty hours of community
  1 30 service in addition to the punishment prescribed in
  1 31 section 903.1.  If the controlled substance is
  1 32 methamphetamine and the person has previously been
  1 33 convicted two or more times of violating this
  1 34 subsection, the person shall perform not less than
  1 35 three hundred hours of community service in addition
  1 36 to the punishment prescribed in section 903.1.
  1 37    PARAGRAPH DIVIDED.  If the controlled substance is
  1 38 marijuana, the punishment shall be by imprisonment in
  1 39 the county jail for not more than six months or by a
  1 40 fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both
  1 41 such fine and imprisonment.  All or any part of a
  1 42 sentence imposed pursuant to this section may be
  1 43 suspended and the person placed upon probation upon
  1 44 such terms and conditions as the court may impose
  1 45 including the active participation by such person in a
  1 46 drug treatment, rehabilitation or education program
  1 47 approved by the court."
  1 48    #3.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 49 
  1 50 
  2  1                               
  2  2 KREIMAN of Davis 
  2  3 HF 2539.704 77
  2  4 ec/sc/28
     

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