Bill Text: MI HB4348 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Controlled substances: drug paraphernalia; sale of nitrous oxide devices; prohibit. Amends sec. 7453 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.7453). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0058'23
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-14 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4348 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4348-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4348
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 7453 (MCL 333.7453), as added by 1988 PA 139.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 7453. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not sell or offer for sale an object specifically designed for inhaling nitrous oxide for recreational purposes or drug paraphernalia, knowing that the object specifically designed for inhaling nitrous oxide for recreational purposes will be used to inhale nitrous oxide for recreational purposes or that the drug paraphernalia will be used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance.
(2) Before a person is arrested for a violation of subsection (1), the attorney general or a prosecuting attorney shall notify the person in writing, not less than 2 business days before the person is to be arrested, that the person is in possession of specific, defined material that has been determined by the attorney general or prosecuting attorney to be an object specifically designed for inhaling nitrous oxide for recreational purposes or drug paraphernalia. The notice also shall must request that the person refrain from selling or offering for sale the material and shall must state that if the person complies with the notice, no arrest will be made for a violation of subsection (1).
(3) If a person complies with a notice sent under subsection (2), the compliance is a complete defense for the person against in a prosecution under this section, 7453, as long as the compliance continues.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no. 01275'23) of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.
