Modifies provisions relating to distributors of hypodermic needles

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Modifies provisions relating to distributors of hypodermic needles

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1219 - Under this act, any entity registered with the Department of Health and Senior Services that possesses, distributes, or delivers hypodermic needles or syringes for the purposes of operating a syringe exchange program or otherwise mitigating health risks associated with unsterile injection drug use shall be exempt from the offense of unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of drug paraphernalia, if such entity is not located within 500 feet of a school building, as well as the offense of unlawful manufacturing with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1219 - Under this act, any entity registered with the Department of Health and Senior Services that possesses, distributes, or delivers hypodermic needles or syringes for the purposes of operating a syringe exchange program or otherwise mitigating health risks associated with unsterile injection drug use shall be exempt from the offense of unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of drug paraphernalia, if such entity is not located within 500 feet of a school building, as well as the offense of unlawful manufacturing with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia.
• This act is identical to SB 472 (2025), SB 997 (2024), SB 623 (2023), provisions in CCS/HCS/SS/SB 690 (2022), and CCS#2/HCS/SS/SB 64 (2021), substantially similar to HB 1486 (2020), SB 668 (2020), HCS/SS/SB 580 (2020), and HCS/HB 168 (2019), and similar to SCS/HB 1620 (2019).
• SARAH HASKINS

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SB 1219 - Under this act, any entity registered with the Department of Health and Senior Services that possesses, distributes, or delivers hypodermic needles or syringes for the purposes of operating a syringe exchange program or otherwise mitigating health risks associated with unsterile injection drug use shall be exempt from the offense of unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of drug paraphernalia, if such entity is not located within 500 feet of a school building, as well as the offense of unlawful manufacturing with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia.

This act is identical to SB 472 (2025), SB 997 (2024), SB 623 (2023), provisions in CCS/HCS/SS/SB 690 (2022), and CCS#2/HCS/SS/SB 64 (2021), substantially similar to HB 1486 (2020), SB 668 (2020), HCS/SS/SB 580 (2020), and HCS/HB 168 (2019), and similar to SCS/HB 1620 (2019).
SARAH HASKINS

Current Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1219
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR LEWIS.
4588S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal sections 579.040 and 579.076, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
relating to distributors of hypodermic needles, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 579.040 and 579.076, RSMo, are 1
repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be 2
known as sections 579.040 and 579.076, to read as follows:3
579.040. 1. A person commits the offense of unlawful 1
distribution, delivery, or sale of drug paraphernalia if he 2
or she unlawfully distributes, delivers, or sells, or 3
possesses with intent to distribute, deliver, or sell drug 4
paraphernalia knowing, or under circumstances in which one 5
reasonably should know, that it will be used to plant, 6
propogate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, 7
convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, 8
repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or 9
otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled 10
substance or an imitation controlled substance in violation 11
of this chapter. Any entity registered with the department 12
of health and senior services that possesses, distributes, 13
or delivers hypodermic needles or syringes for the purpose 14
of operating a syringe access program or otherwise 15
mitigating health risks associated with unsterile injection 16
drug use shall be exempt from the provisions of this 17
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section. No such entity shall be present within five 18
hundred feet of any school building, unless such entity is 19
in operation prior to the school building commencing 20
operations. 21
2. The offense of unlawful delivery of drug 22
paraphernalia is a class A misdemeanor, unless done for 23
commercial purposes, in which case it is a class E felony. 24
579.076. 1. A person commits the offense of unlawful 1
manufacture of drug paraphernalia if he or she unlawfully 2
manufactures with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia, 3
knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should 4
know, that it will be used to plant, propagate, cultivate, 5
grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, 6
process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, 7
contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise 8
introduce into the human body a controlled substance or an 9
imitation controlled substance in violation of this chapter 10
or chapter 195. Any entity registered with the department 11
of health and senior services that delivers or manufactures 12
hypodermic needles or syringes for the purpose of operating 13
a syringe access program or otherwise mitigating health 14
risks associated with unsterile injection drug use shall be 15
exempt from the provisions of this section. 16
2. The offense of unlawful manufacture of drug 17
paraphernalia is a class A misdemeanor, unless done for 18
commercial purposes, in which case it is a class E felony. 19
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