Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2352
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11  The Committee on Health Care (Peaden) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment 
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16            page 14, line 17, delete those lines
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19         893.1495  Sale of ephedrine and related compounds.--
20         (1)  No person shall deliver in any single retail
21  over-the-counter sale any number of packages of any drug
22  containing a sole active ingredient that he or she knows to
23  contain a combined total of more than 9 base grams of
24  ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or any of
25  their salts, optical isomers, or salts of optional isomers, or
26  more than three packages in any single retail over-the-counter
27  sale, regardless of weight, containing any such sole active
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29         (2)  Packages of any drug having a sole active
30  ingredient of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine,
31  or any of their salts or optical isomers shall be displayed
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2352
                        Barcode 284286
 1  and offered for retail sale only behind a checkout counter
 2  where the public is not permitted.
 3         (3)  Any person who is considered the general owner or
 4  operator of the retail outlet where ephedrine,
 5  pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine products are available
 6  for retail sale shall provide an employee training program
 7  that contains instruction on state and federal regulations
 8  related to such products to each employee engaged in the
 9  retail sale of the products.
10         (4)  This section shall supersede any municipal
11  ordinance or regulation passed on or after July 1, 2005, to
12  the extent that such ordinance or regulation is more
13  restrictive than the provisions of this section.
14         (5)  A person who violates subsection (1) or subsection
15  (2) shall not be punished for the first violation. A person
16  who violates subsection (1) or subsection (2) commits a
17  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
18  775.082 or s. 775.083, for a second offense and, for a third
19  or subsequent offense, commits a felony of the third degree,
20  punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s.
21  775.084.
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