HP0883
LD 1241
Second Regular Session - 123rd Legislature - Text: MS-Word, RTF or PDF LR 1482
Item 2
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Amend the bill by striking out all of section 43 and inserting the following:

Sec. 43. 17-A MRSA §1107-A, sub-§1, ¶B,  as amended by PL 2007, c. 55, §2, is further amended to read:

B. A schedule W drug that contains:

(1) Heroin (diacetylmorphine);

(2) Cocaine in the form of cocaine base and at the time of the offense the person has been convicted of one or more prior convictions for any offense under this chapter or under any law of the United States, another state or a foreign country relating to scheduled drugs, as defined in this chapter for engaging in substantially similar conduct to that of the Maine offenses under this chapter in another jurisdiction. For the purposes of this paragraph, a person has been convicted of an offense on the date the judgment of conviction was entered by the court;

(3) Methamphetamine;

(4) Oxycodone;

(5) Hydrocodone; or

(6) Hydromorphone.

Violation of this paragraph is a Class C crime;’

SUMMARY

This amendment removes and replaces a bill section to reflect a change to the law already made this session.

FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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