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SF 1802 Senate Long Description

Modifying certain controlled substance crime provisions; modifying +certain conditions for conviction of controlled substance sale and possession+ crimes in the first through fifth degrees and increasing certain penalties; +transferring the controlled substance manufacture crime from the first to the +second degree and creating the controlled substance crime in the sixth degree and +the crime of loitering with the purpose to purchase a controlled substance; +requiring sentencing courts to sentence nonviolent drug offenders to treatment +in a drug abuse treatment program, exception, limit, requiring treatment +assessments and defining nonviolent drug offender; authorizing the court to impose +nonprison sanctions for failure to comply with drug treatment program +conditions and specifying grounds for discharge from the program; providing for +application for relief from drug sentencing under certain conditions; requiring +the executive director of the sentencing guidelines commission to convene+ a temporary task force to develop guidelines, criteria and procedures +for implementing the nonviolent drug offender treatment program, +specifying membership requirements and duties, requiring a report of +recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; specifying certain cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes; appropriating +money to the commissioner of human services for the drug treatment program(ra)