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90_SB1264

      720 ILCS 635/1            from Ch. 38, par. 22-50
      720 ILCS 635/2            from Ch. 38, par. 22-51
      720 ILCS 635/4            from Ch. 38, par. 22-53
      720 ILCS 635/3 rep.
          Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act.  Provides
      that  a  person  operating  or  participating  in  a   public
      health-related  needle  exchange program or a person 18 years
      of age or older who purchases up  to  10  hypodermic  needles
      from  a  registered  pharmacist  does  not  violate  the Act.
      Repeals provisions requiring a person who  sells  a  syringe,
      needle, or instrument to keep a record of the sale.  Provides
      that  the  Department of Public Health shall develop and make
      available  educational  information  to  be  distributed   to
      persons   who  purchase  hypodermic  needles  under  the  new
      provisions.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Hypodermic Syringes and  Needles  Act
 2    by changing Sections 1, 2, and 4 and repealing Section 3.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Hypodermic Syringes and  Needles  Act  is
 6    amended by changing Sections 1, 2, and 4 as follows:
 7        (720 ILCS 635/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-50)
 8        Sec.  1.  No  person,  not  being  a  physician, dentist,
 9    chiropodist or veterinarian licensed under the laws  of  this
10    State  or  of  the  state  where  he resides, or a registered
11    professional nurse, or a registered embalmer, manufacturer or
12    dealer   in   embalming   supplies,    wholesale    druggist,
13    manufacturing pharmacist, registered pharmacist, manufacturer
14    of  surgical  instruments,  industrial  user, official of any
15    government having  possession  of  the  articles  hereinafter
16    mentioned  by  reason  of  his  official  duties,  nurse or a
17    medical laboratory technician acting under the direction of a
18    physician or dentist, employee of  an  incorporated  hospital
19    acting  under  the direction of its superintendent or officer
20    in immediate charge, or a carrier or messenger engaged in the
21    transportation of such articles, or the holder  of  a  permit
22    issued  under  Section  5 of this Act, or a farmer engaged in
23    the use of such instruments on livestock, or a person engaged
24    in chemical, clinical,  pharmaceutical  or  other  scientific
25    research,  or a person operating or participating in a public
26    health-related  needle  exchange  program,  or  a  person  in
27    possession  of  syringes  acquired  pursuant   to   a   valid
28    transaction  under  Section  2 of this Act, shall have in his
29    possession a hypodermic syringe, hypodermic  needle,  or  any
30    instrument  adapted  for  the use of controlled substances or
31    cannabis by subcutaneous injection.
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 1    (Source: P.A. 77-771.)
 2        (720 ILCS 635/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-51)
 3        Sec. 2. No such syringe, needle or  instrument  shall  be
 4    delivered  or sold to, or exchanged with, any person except a
 5    registered  pharmacist,  physician,  dentist,   veterinarian,
 6    registered  embalmer,  manufacturer  or  dealer  in embalming
 7    supplies,  wholesale  druggist,   manufacturing   pharmacist,
 8    industrial  user,  a  nurse  upon  the  written  order  of  a
 9    physician  or  dentist,  the  holder of a permit issued under
10    Section 5 of  this  Act,  a  registered  chiropodist,  or  an
11    employee  of  an incorporated hospital upon the written order
12    of  its  superintendent  or  officer  in  immediate   charge;
13    provided  that  the provisions of this Act shall not prohibit
14    the  sale,  possession  or  use  of  hypodermic  syringes  or
15    hypodermic needles for treatment of livestock or  poultry  by
16    the  owner or keeper thereof or a person engaged in chemical,
17    clinical, pharmaceutical or other scientific research. In the
18    interest of preventing the transmission  of  AIDS  and  other
19    communicable diseases, it shall not be a criminal offense for
20    a  person  18  years  of  age  or  older to purchase up to 10
21    hypodermic needles from a registered pharmacist  at  any  one
22    time  without a prescription or to sell or possess hypodermic
23    needles incidental to  such  purchase,  nor  shall  it  be  a
24    criminal  offense  for  a  person 18 years of age or older to
25    possess or exchange hypodermic needles  in  conjunction  with
26    any public health-related needle exchange program.
27        The  Illinois  Department  of Public Health shall develop
28    educational materials and  make  copies  of  the  educational
29    materials  available  to  pharmacists.     Pharmacists  shall
30    distribute  the  educational  materials    to each person who
31    purchases  hypodermic  needles    as  authorized  under  this
32    Section.     The   educational   materials   shall    include
33    information   regarding   safer  injection,  HIV  prevention,
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 1    syringe disposal, and  drug treatment.
 2    (Source: Laws 1955, p. 1408.)
 3        (720 ILCS 635/4) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-53)
 4        Sec. 4. Whoever violates any  provisions  of  Sections  1
 5    and,  2,  and  3  of  this  Act  shall be guilty of a Class A
 6    misdemeanor for the first such offense; for a second  or  any
 7    succeeding offense, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.
 8    (Source: P.A. 77-2830.)
 9        (720 ILCS 635/3 rep.)
10        Section  10.   The Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act is
11    amended by repealing Section 3.

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