EHB 1209: Restricting the possession, purchase, delivery, and sale of certain equipment used to illegally process controlled substances.

What this bill does

Makes it a felony offense to possess, purchase, deliver, sell, or possess with intent to sell a tableting machine or encapsulating machine knowing or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance, other than cannabis, in violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.

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Floor votes

• House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 7, 2023
  95 yea · 0 nay · 3 not voting
• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 31, 2023
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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