3E Relating to public safety

ARTICLE 1 - METHAMPHETAMINE PROVISIONS

Expanding the definition of narcotic drug to include methamphetamine; increasing penalties for possession of substances with intent to manufacture methamphetamine; requiring the court to order restitution for certain controlled or precursor substance offenses; imposing certain property related prohibitions for clandestine lab sites, specifying certain notice requirements of arresting peace officers and of certain authorities and certain recording requirements and providing for cleanup, imposing liability of contractors verifying cleanup completion before full remediation; specifying certain property information maintenance requirements of local community health services administrators, requiring the commissioner of health to post contact information on the web site; specifying certain disclosure requirements for the sale or transfer of real property, imposing liability on the seller for failure to comply; further regulating and recodifying activities involving the use of anhydrous ammonia, specifying certain prohibited conduct and imposing criminal penalties and civil liability; establishing methamphetamine related crimes involving children and vulnerable adults, imposing criminal penalties and providing for multiple sentences, providing for the taking of children into protective custody and requiring the reporting of maltreatment of vulnerable adults; requiring certificates of title for motor vehicles contaminated by methamphetamine production to notate a hazardous waste contaminated vehicle condition; requiring peace officer notice to schools of children taken into protective custody due to methamphetamine manufacture or storage; establishing a methamphetamine laboratory cleanup revolving fund for loans to assist cities and counties in methamphetamine cleanup, specifying loan application and eligibility requirements and providing for disbursement of funds; expanding the definition of violent crime to methamphetamine related crimes involving children and vulnerable adults for mandatory sentencing purposes; specifying certain recodification instructions to the revisor of statutes

ARTICLE 2 - METHAMPHETAMINE APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for increased prison population, to the board of public defense for a methamphetamine trial team, to the commissioner of human services to fund a certain number of pilot projects addressing methamphetamine, to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to carry out the duties of the public facilities authority involving the methamphetamine laboratory cleanup revolving fund, to the commissioner of public safety for additional bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) agents, to the commissioner of health to provide technical assistance on methamphetamine lab remediation and to the commissioner of education to develop and distribute materials to schools addressing the dangers of methamphetamine
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