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1    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
5adding Section 22.58 as follows:
 
6    (415 ILCS 5/22.58 new)
7    Sec. 22.58. Drug destruction by law enforcement agency.
8(a) For purposes of this Section:
9        "Drug destruction device" means a device that is (i)
10    designed by its manufacturer to destroy drug evidence and
11    render it non-retrievable and (ii) used exclusively for
12    that purpose.
13        "Drug evidence" means any illegal drug collected as
14    evidence by a law enforcement agency. "Drug evidence" does
15    not include hazardous waste.
16        "Illegal drug" means any one or more of the following
17    when obtained without a prescription or otherwise in
18    violation of the law:
19            (1) any substance as defined and included in the
20        Schedules of Article II of the Illinois Controlled
21        Substances Act;
22            (2) any cannabis as defined in Section 3 of the
23        Cannabis Control Act; or

 

 

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1            (3) any drug as defined in paragraph (b) of Section
2        3 of the Pharmacy Practice Act.
3        "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of this State
4    or unit of local government that is vested by law or
5    ordinance with the duty to maintain public order and to
6    enforce criminal laws or ordinances.
7        "Non-retrievable" means the condition or state
8    following a process that permanently alters the illegal
9    drug's physical or chemical condition or state through
10    irreversible means and thereby renders the illegal drug
11    unavailable and unusable for all practical purposes.
12    (b) To the extent allowed under federal law, drug evidence
13that is placed into a drug destruction device by a law
14enforcement agency at the location where the evidence is stored
15by the agency and that is destroyed under the supervision of
16the agency in accordance with the specifications of the device
17manufacturer shall not be considered discarded or a waste under
18this Act until it is rendered non-retrievable.
 
19    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20becoming law.