House Study Bill 551



                                       SENATE/HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF
                                            PUBLIC SAFETY BILL)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to peace officer examinations of logbooks signed
  2    by purchasers of pseudoephedrine products.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 5374XD 81
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 126.23A, subsection 1, paragraph b,
  1  2 subparagraph (6), unnumbered paragraph 2, Code Supplement
  1  3 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  4    Iowa law prohibits the over=the=counter purchase of more
  1  5 than one package of a product containing pseudoephedrine in a
  1  6 twenty=four=hour period or of more than seven thousand five
  1  7 hundred milligrams of pseudoephedrine within a thirty=day
  1  8 period.  If you purchase a product containing pseudoephedrine,
  1  9 you are required to sign a logbook which may be is accessible
  1 10 to law enforcement officers.
  1 11    Sec. 2.  Section 126.23A, subsection 5, Code Supplement
  1 12 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1 13    5.  The logbook may be kept in an electronic format upon
  1 14 approval by the department of public safety, and shall be
  1 15 accessible to any peace officer for examination at reasonable
  1 16 times.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill relates to the examination of logbooks signed by
  1 19 the purchaser of a pseudoephedrine product.  The bill makes a
  1 20 logbook signed by the purchaser of a pseudoephedrine product
  1 21 accessible to a peace officer for examination at reasonable
  1 22 times.
  1 23    Current law provides that the logbook may be accessible to
  1 24 a peace officer.
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